{"id":5704,"date":"2025-07-01T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T14:00:23","slug":"number-of-romanians-at-risk-of-poverty-drops-by-375000-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5704","title":{"rendered":"Number of Romanians at risk of poverty drops by 375,000 in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics<\/a>, or INS.<\/p>\n

Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% of the resident population lived in a household whose income was below the threshold set at 60% of the median disposable income per adult.<\/p>\n

The poverty rate by gender in 2024 was slightly higher among women than among men (19% vs 18.9%). The highest incidence of poverty was found among people aged 0\u201317 (26.2%) and those aged 18\u201324 (22.2%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The poverty rate for people living in households with children and dependent young people aged 18\u201324 was 22.6% in 2024 (down 2.5% from 2023), but higher by 8.6% than that of people living in households without minors and dependent young people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The acute lack of financial resources means that some people cannot afford to own goods, make payments, or consume products that, in the current stage of socio-economic development, represent a minimum set of elements necessary for a decent standard of living.<\/p>\n

In 2024, the severe material and social deprivation rate was 17.2%, down 2.6% compared to the previous year. The total number of people affected by severe material and social deprivation in 2024 was 3,266,000, with women being more affected (52.9%) than men (47.1%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among age groups, the incidence of severe material and social deprivation was higher mainly among people under 18 years old (21.2%) and the elderly aged 65 and over (19.6%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The risk of poverty or social exclusion rate was 27.9% in 2024, corresponding to 5.3 million people. Compared to 2023, this represents a decrease of 4.1%, or 739,000 fewer people. The risk of poverty or social exclusion affects women more than men (28.4% of women vs 27.4% of men).\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this measurement, beyond gender, age plays an important role: in 2024, the AROPE indicator was higher for people aged 0\u201317 (33.8%) and young people aged 18\u201324 (31.3%), and lower for people aged 25\u201349 (22.9%). The proportion of people aged 65 and over who were at risk of poverty or social exclusion was 29.3%.<\/p>\n

Finally, 17.3% of all employed persons aged 18 and over were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, compared to 37.5% of all unemployed persons in the same age group. People living in households without children and dependent youth aged 18\u201324 had a lower risk of poverty or social exclusion (24.5%) compared to those living in households with such dependents (30.4%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The risk of poverty or social exclusion is also unequally distributed regionally. The highest rate was recorded in the South-East region (39.7%), closely followed by the South-West Oltenia region (35.1%), and the lowest rate was observed in the Bucharest-Ilfov region (12%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source:\u00a0Aaron Amat\u00a0|\u00a0Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of people in Romania at risk of poverty stood at 3.59 million people in 2024, 375,000 fewer than in 2023, representing a 9.4% decrease, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics, or INS. Despite the improvement, nearly one in five Romanians was affected by poverty last year. According to INS, 19% […]<\/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-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","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=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}