Romania’s middle class, defined as the part of the population with disposable income between 75% and 200% of the country’s median, has grown by 10 percentage points since joining the EU, accounting for 61% of the country’s population in 2023, according to an analysis carried out by Ella K\u00e1llai, chief economist of Alpha Bank Romania.<\/p>\n
Despite the growth, the largest in the region, the size of the middle class remained the second lowest in the region after Bulgaria.<\/p>\n
“The 10pp increase was the largest expansion in the region due to both the reduction in the share of the high-income class from 14% in 2007 to 8% in 2023 and the reduction in the share of the low-income class from 35% in 2007 to 31% in 2023,” reads the report cited by Cursdeguvernare.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Hungary, the middle class contracted to 65% in 2023 from 70% in 2007. The middle class is the largest (72%) in the Czech Republic, followed by Poland, where it grew to 67% from 60% in 2007.<\/p>\n “Compared to older EU member states such as Greece and Italy, the middle class in the region tends to be larger and income inequality less,” K\u00e1llai points out.<\/p>\n iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n (Photo source: Radub85\/Dreamstime.com)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romania’s middle class, defined as the part of the population with disposable income between 75% and 200% of the country’s median, has grown by 10 percentage points since joining the EU, accounting for 61% of the country’s population in 2023, according to an analysis carried out by Ella K\u00e1llai, chief economist of Alpha Bank Romania. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}