Compared with April, overdue loan payments increased 4%, the data showed.
Overdue loans as share of total debt rose to a fresh high at 7.3% at the end of May, from 7.2% a month earlier. It was the highest figure since the central bank started to keep records in November 2002.
The number of Romanian corporate and household debtors reached 955,610 million in May, of which 235,688 had past due payments.
Total loans and commitments assumed by Romanian lenders stood at RON275.9 billion, up 7.3% from May 2010. (EUR1=RON4.1817)