In the fourth quarter of 2022, the employment rate for the population aged 20-64 years was 68.5%.
In the fourth quarter of 2022, the economically active population of Romania was 8256.9 thousand persons, of whom 7778.8 thousand were employed persons and 478.1 thousand unemployed people.
The employment rate was higher for men (71.0% against 54.5% for women), respectively for residents in urban areas (68.1% against 56.6% in rural areas).
The employment rate for youth (15-24 years) was 19.6%.
Unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2022 was 5.8%, higher by 0.4 percentage points than the level recorded for the third quarter of 2022. By gender, the gap between the two unemployment rates was 1.2 percentage points (6.3% for men against 5.1% for women), while by residential areas it was 6.1 percentage points (9.3% for rural areas against 3.2% for urban areas). By age groups, the unemployment rate reached the highest level (22.7%) among young people (15-24 years).
Apart from the 7778.8 thousand employed people, another 655.4 thousand people worked in their own agricultural household, in order to produce agricultural goods intended exclusively or mainly for self-consumption, being in one of the following situations:
– either the majority of the production obtained in the household was consumed in the household and only a small part of the agricultural production obtained was intended for sale,
– or the agricultural production obtained is intended exclusively for own consumption but represents a substantial part of the total household consumption.
People in the above-mentioned categories, included in the employed population according to the survey methodology used until 2020 (inclusive) are, starting with the first quarter of 2021, considered inactive or unemployed (depending on whether or not they meet the three criteria used in the definition of ILO unemployment). Together with the employed people, they make up the “productive population” whose number was 8434.2 thousand persons in the fourth quarter of 2022. This indicator is defined only in a national context.
The rate of productive population – calculated for the 15-64 age group was 66.2% in the fourth quarter of 2022, and 72.0% for the 20-64 age group.