Second-quarter GDP dropped 12.3% compared with the first quarter, the data showed.
In the first six months of the year, Romania’s GDP contracted 4.9% in unadjusted data and 3.9% in real terms, the data showed.
Romania’s government has revised its estimates for 2020 and now expects an economic downfall of 3.8% for the full year compared with a previous estimate of 1.9%.
The country’s budget deficit is seen widening to 8.6% of GDP this year from the government’s previous target of 6.7%, finance minister Florin Citu said late Thursday.