EU comparison

How much prices rose: Romania vs the EU

Cumulative consumer-price growth from 2015 to 2025, by category — Romania against the 27-state EU average.

Overall basket · 2015→2025+27 pp

Romania+60%

EU (27)+33%

Consumer prices in Romania rose by 60% since 2015 — versus 33% across the European Union. A gap of 27 percentage points.

By category — sorted by gap

Water

+64 pp

Romania+101%

EU (27)+37%

Housing

+49 pp

Romania+90%

EU (27)+41%

Energy

+37 pp

Romania+100%

EU (27)+63%

Education

+36 pp

Romania+58%

EU (27)+22%

Health

+31 pp

Romania+52%

EU (27)+22%

Food

+26 pp

Romania+74%

EU (27)+48%

Transport

+11 pp

Romania+40%

EU (27)+29%

How to read this

Percentages show cumulative growth of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) versus 2015 (=100) — not the price level. The “gap” is the difference, in percentage points, between Romania's growth and the EU's.

Source: Eurostat — HICP, annual average index (prc_hicp_aind), 2015→2025.