- ISO 3166
RO- Primary locale
ro-RO- Currency
- RON · Romanian Leu
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
Romania
Romania has 18.1M people, and 16.6M of them are online. Romanian is the most widely spoken language at 90%, one of 8 languages CLDR lists here. Romanian is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ro-RO.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
16.6M
0%world median 81%100%
91% of 18.1M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$22,538
Higher than 67% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
71%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
8
Romanian 90% · English 31% · French 12%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
605
Very lowVery high
Very high proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
98%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Romania
share of 18.1M people
- Romanianofficial90%16.3M
- English31%5.6M
- French12%2.2M
- Spanish10%1.8M
- Hungarian7%1.2M
- German0.2%38.1K
- Turkish0.1%23.6K
- Serbian0.1%21.8K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against ro-RO, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
3
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 aprilie 2026
Short: 21.04.2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
1.234,56 RON
1,234.56 in RON · Romanian Leu