Talk:Economy of Romania

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[edit] Anybody has any sugestions?

How to stop the series of vandalizations of this article (especially in the first infobox) by individuals who keep increasing "the numbers" without giving any reference? The article risks becoming a joke if this numbers continue to be bumped up. Nergaal (talk) 19:13, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

I added this one "The average monthly salary in Romania is around €500" and I've taken this info from [1] as one can see I added the ref. As the rest, much of it is referenced in comparison with other articles. --NotRem (talk) 19:28, 25 December 2007 (UTC)


"Romania is the regional economic power, well ahead in terms of GDP as its neighbouring countries." Romania's neighbor Ukraine has almost twice bigger GDP. Tiger is short but is very proud by his size :)

It's not a tiger who is proud, it's a nut, but I didn't have time to decrapify this article from his influence. -- AdrianTM (talk) 04:30, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

At least in 2006 GDP of Romania was bigger than its neighbours. See the list.

  • place 45, Romania 121,609 (millions of US dollars)
  • place 49, Hungary 112,899
  • place 51, Ukraine 106,111

Actually you can find this also in the article List of countries by GDP (nominal). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.113.151.26 (talk) 14:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

There are also interesting the future estimations of GDP for Romania. In all of them Romania has bigger GDP than Ukraine, Hungary, not to mention Moldova or Bulgaria. LearnratesX (talk) 19:40, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


See this interesting article List of countries by future GDP estimates (nominal) LearnratesX (talk) 19:42, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


It's funny to read that "Romania is the largest, high-income EU member economy of Central-Eastern Europe", when based on it's GDP per capita it's just recently gotten into upper-middle income class.Creionul (talk) 09:03, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Something else, please review all the "Agriculture" article as most of the statements are not true. The county of Romania has the potential but not yet the technology. And I am sure much more than 5% of country population works within this sector.Creionul (talk) 20:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Please also review the statement that Romania is the second wine export in Europe. Unfortunately it is not! You might wanna check the 2007 list of wine-producing countries in the world. You will see that world wide Romania is only on the 12th position and other european counties are ahead Romania. Please try to be more correct for the next time.Creionul (talk) 21:17, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Yep, somebody shall correct these ridiculous claims. I.e. Poland has about twice as big GDP PPP according to its wiki entry, Czechs and Hungarians have comparable GDP while almost half of population of Romania. Moreover, Romania doesn't rank among high-income countries in the reference provided, so I'm removing this claim.138.38.221.134 (talk) 10:14, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current economic crisis

Someone with a bit more knowledge then me should write something about the current economic crisis. I think it's pretty important and there's nothing in here at all. Looking here you'd think we're the richest country in the EU, it's pretty surreal... --Helixdq (talk) 15:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I don't think the situation is bad enough to say that Romania is in an economic crisis, until we see some actual long term effect at least. --C.matei (talk) 16:47, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Before World War II

Before World War II Romania was supposed to have had the third-largest economy on the continent, after Germany and France; a prosperous peasant society, exporting huge amounts of wheat and oil.

I've removed this sentence from that section since it had nothing to do with reality. Having a mainly peasant society and exports comprised mostly of agricultural products and basic resources like oil (which at the time had nowhere near the value it has today) is definetly NOT a good thing for a country's economy, btw.

Romania processed 95% of its own oil, and it was not basic resources, it was petrochemical products that were exported. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.84.84 (talk) 03:44, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

According to these figures by A. Maddison, Romania's GDP was about the 15th on the continent before World War II and GDP per capita was the lowest. And according to the same figures, GDP only increased by 15% in 12 years before WWII, so I have doubts about the second part of that section too (if industrial production doubled from nothing, it doesn't mean a whole lot).

I might try to add something to this section in the following days if I have time. If someone else is willing to contribute, that would be great. C.matei (talk) 16:41, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

We've had socks of banned persons who kept adding this kind of things, thanks for keeping an eye on this. -- AdrianTM (talk) 16:53, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Looking at the trend, I am pretty sure that the author ignores the territories that were lost after 1945. Nergaal (talk) 00:08, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm not certain, but I think the author calculated GDP throughout history in the geographical area that is today's Romania. This would also explain why pre-WWI GDP was higher than post-WWI GDP.--C.matei (talk) 11:28, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

A lot of errors on the page. Agriculture is not!!!developed in Romania such as described. 62.143.120.66 (talk) 23:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] National Prognosis Romania

Someone who keeps taking off Romania's economic prognosis in 2020 at EUR GPD PPP 36,300 please do not take this off, leave it on. The statement was backed up by the appropriate evidence meaning it had a citation. The information regarding Doing Business should be removed since it is already mentioned on the front page.Pryde 01 (talk) 01:59, 11 June 2008 (UTC)