Romania’s Gross Domestic Product decreased by 0.2% in the third quarter of 2025 (July-September) compared to the previous quarter, announced the National Institute of Statistics.
Compared to the same quarter of 2024, the gross domestic product increased by +1.4% (on the same adjusted series).
Overall, in the first 9 months of the year, the economy still shows a modest growth of +0.8%.
Last month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised downwards its estimates for the growth of the Romanian economy this year to 1%, from the 1.6% forecasted in April.
Additionally, the IMF halved its estimates for Romania's GDP growth in 2026 to 1.4%, down from 2.8% forecasted in the spring.
However, the IMF is more optimistic than the World Bank regarding the evolution of the Romanian economy.
The most recent economic analyses for Europe and Central Asia published by the World Bank show that the Romanian economy will only grow by 0.4% this year and by 1.3% next year.
In Bucharest, the latest estimates from the National Commission for Strategy and Forecast indicate a GDP growth of 0.6% this year and 1.2% in 2026.