Country comparison: Bulgaria / Romania

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Bulgaria and Romania. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Bulgaria	Romania
Region:	Eastern Europe	Eastern Europe
Area:	111,000 km²	238,400 km²
National language:	Bulgarian	Romanian
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Semi-presidential republic
Independent since:	1908 AD	1878 AD
Capital:	Sofia	Bucharest

Population

Details for Bulgaria and Romania

	Bulgaria	Romania
Population:	6,878,000	19,120,000
Inhabitants/km²:	62.0	80.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 43.7 years	Ø 42.5 years
Birth rate:	8.50 ‰	9.20 ‰
Death rate:	18.00 ‰	15.40 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.29 ‰	-4.36 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Bulgaria	Romania
Political stability:	69	66
Civil rights:	51	56
Health:	81	74
Climate:	49	37
Cost of Living:	62	68
Popularity:	39	24

Economy

Details for Bulgaria and Romania

	Bulgaria	Romania
Currency:	Bulgarian lev (1 BGN = 100 Stotinki)	Romanian leu (1 RON =100 Bani)
Unemployment rate:	5.4 %	5.2 %
Inflation rate:	3.30 %	5.05 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	47.53 %	46.97 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	28.30 %	20.00 %
Average income:	11,200 US$	14,160 US$
Corruption index:	58 (bad)	55 (bad)

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	84,056 M US$	12.22 M US$	284,088 M US$	14.86 M US$
Gross national product:	77,005 M US$	11.20 M US$	270,677 M US$	14.16 M US$
Exported goods:	51,505 M US$	7.49 M US$	115,879 M US$	6.06 M US$
Imported goods:	50,059 M US$	7.28 M US$	132,056 M US$	6.91 M US$
Gross debt:	20,123 M US$	2.93 M US$	137,924 M US$	7.21 M US$
Budget deficit:	3,285 M US$	0.48 M US$	20,180 M US$	1.06 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Bulgaria and Romania

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	19,512 km	2.84 km	84,185 km	4.40 km
Railways:	4,030 km	0.59 km	10,759 km	0.56 km
Waterways:	470 km	0.07 km	1,731 km	0.09 km
Harbours:	79	0.0115	121	0.0063
Passenger airports:	4	0.0006	14	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Bulgaria and Romania

	BGR: total	per 1000 inh.	ROU: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	32.34 bn kWh	4.70 m kWh	49.64 bn kWh	2.60 m kWh
Energy production:	42.29 bn kWh	6.15 m kWh	61.78 bn kWh	3.23 m kWh
Energy export:	9.19 bn kWh	1.34 m kWh	11.22 bn kWh	586,823.77 kWh
Energy imports:	4.57 bn kWh	664,171.37 kWh	4.18 bn kWh	218,463.71 kWh
CO2 emissions:	39.14 m t	5,690.82 t	73.95 m t	3,867.70 t

Telecommunication

Details for Bulgaria and Romania

	Bulgaria	Romania
International dialing:	+359	+40
Internet domain:	.bg	.ro

	BGR total	BGR per 1000 inh.	ROU total	ROU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	872,757	127	3,025,000	158
Mobile cellulars:	7,945,739	1155	22,592,000	1182
Internet server:	976,277	142	2,667,000	139
Internet users:	4,840,426	704	14,996,839	784
Broadband Internet:	2,245,831	327	6,099,000	319

Healthcare system

Details for Bulgaria and Romania

	Bulgaria	Romania
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	7.45	6.89
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.99	2.26
Diabetes:	6.0 %	6.9 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.08 %
Tuberculosis:	0.17 ‰	0.45 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	82.0 %	82.0 %
Smokers:	39.0 %	28.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Bulgaria and Romania

	Bulgaria	Romania
Daytime temperatures:	18.1 °C	16.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.4 °C	6.1 °C
Water temperature:	13.3 °C	12.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	74 %	78 %
Rain days:	6.4	7.3
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	5.8

Native languages

	Bulgaria	Romania
Romanian:	n/a	85.4 %
Bulgarian:	76.8 %	n/a
Turkish:	8.2 %	n/a
Hungarian:	n/a	6.3 %
Romany:	3.8 %	1.2 %
Macedonian:	2.6 %	n/a
German:	n/a	0.4 %
Ukrainian:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	8.6 %	6.3 %

Religions

	Bulgaria	Romania
Christianity:	77.9 %	92.6 %
Nondenominational:	11.8 %	0.2 %
Islam:	10.0 %	n/a
other:	0.3 %	7.2 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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