EU
Romania
~24%
Work in exposed occupations
~1.86 m · estimate · 2025
6.4%
Unemployment
±0.0 pp (Jul 2026)
Aug 2026
30.8%
Youth unemployment (<25)
Jun 2026
0.5%
Job vacancy rate
Q2 2026
69.0%
Employment rate (20–64)
2025
5%
Firms using AI
2025 · EU average 20%
0.58
IMF AI Preparedness Index
IMF · 2023
7.69 m
Employed
2025 · Eurostat
Unemployment, monthly
RomaniaEU27Eurostat une_rt_m · seasonally adjusted
Who does what? — employment by occupational group
Tile size is the number employed, colour the group's average AI exposure.
Out of 100 workers — Romania
- 60Not exposed
- 16Minimal
- 5Low
- 9Medium
- 6High
- 4Highest
Outlook to 2035 (Cedefop)
The fastest growing and shrinking occupational groups between 2025 and 2035.
+3.9%
Change 2025→2035
2.41 m
Total expected openings
2025–2035
2.08 m
Replacement demand
+333 k
Expansion
- Information and communications technology professionals+137.2%
- Business and administration professionals+69.9%
- Information and communications technicians+69.6%
- Refuse workers and other elementary workers+43.8%
- Chief executives, senior officials and legislators+38.9%
- Assemblers+37.7%
- Other clerical support workers−15.5%
- Hospitality, retail and other services managers−19.3%
- Science and engineering associate professionals−22.1%
- Legal, social and cultural professionals−48.7%
- Market-oriented skilled agricultural workers−60.8%
- Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers−66.5%
Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026
What employers say (WEF 2025)
19%
expected job churn by 2030
global: 22%
37%
of skills will change
global: 39%
91%
of firms run AI programmes
global: 88%
Small employer sample per country — indicative, not a precise measurement. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025.