Romania
Upper-middle to high-income EU economy with rapid convergence, its own currency, and large fiscal and external imbalances to watch. Start with EU funds, wages, fiscal deficits, energy, industrial exports, and leu stability.
Romania
Overview
Romania is a Southeastern European economy. The profile should be read through EU funds, manufacturing, IT services, wages, and fiscal adjustment, the monetary setting described by its central bank, and external pressure from the EU single market, Germany, Black Sea security, and energy prices. The current IMF values give the cycle; national sources explain how that cycle reaches households, firms, banks, and public budgets.
How to read Romania
Start with the latest cycle, but do not stop there. IMF DataMapper current values put real GDP growth at 0.7 percent in 2025 and 0.7 percent in 2026. IMF DataMapper current values put average consumer-price inflation at 7.3 percent in 2025 and 7.8 percent in 2026. Those numbers tell you whether demand and prices are moving with or against the country's policy setting S6,S7.
Then move to structure. Romania's profile is shaped by EU funds, manufacturing, IT services, wages, and fiscal adjustment. A good reading asks which of those channels is lifting output, which is absorbing labor, and which is most exposed to imported costs or foreign demand S1,S4,S5.
The final step is institutional. Own currency: Romanian leu; monetary policy set by the National Bank of Romania. Semi-presidential republic and EU member outside the euro area. Those two facts decide how quickly inflation, credit, fiscal pressure, and external shocks can be answered S2,S3,S4.