# Unemployment rate: Romania

5.992% in 2025, the latest year published. Figures for 35 years from 1991 to 2025 are below.

Share of the labor force without work, but actively looking for a job and available to start soon.

Source: ILO Modelled Estimates, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/unemployment) · [All countries and regions](/unemployment).

## Every year

| Year | Value (%) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2025 | 5.992 |
| 2024 | 5.4 |
| 2023 | 5.589 |
| 2022 | 5.614 |
| 2021 | 5.59 |
| 2020 | 5.035 |
| 2019 | 3.912 |
| 2018 | 4.187 |
| 2017 | 4.927 |
| 2016 | 5.901 |
| 2015 | 6.812 |
| 2014 | 6.802 |
| 2013 | 7.096 |
| 2012 | 6.794 |
| 2011 | 7.177 |
| 2010 | 6.959 |
| 2009 | 6.859 |
| 2008 | 5.787 |
| 2007 | 6.413 |
| 2006 | 7.27 |
| 2005 | 7.174 |
| 2004 | 7.719 |
| 2003 | 6.95 |
| 2002 | 8.112 |
| 2001 | 6.561 |
| 2000 | 6.969 |
| 1999 | 6.239 |
| 1998 | 5.63 |
| 1997 | 5.515 |
| 1996 | 6.74 |
| 1995 | 8.01 |
| 1994 | 8.17 |
| 1993 | 8.251 |
| 1992 | 8.26 |
| 1991 | 8.23 |

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