Romania has the third highest price for electricity in the EU and the sixth highest price for natural gas

Romania ranks only 20 out of 27 in the European Union in the accessibility index for paying utility bills, based on the estimated costs for electricity, natural gas, drinking water or household waste, as reported by the Numbeo platform, for an 85 square feet. Thus, in the case of an apartment, utility costs in Romania reach the equivalent of around 134 euros per month, corresponding to an affordability index of 0.14 when the average net salary of 977 euros is taken into account, reports Profit.ro .

One of the explanations for this positioning is that Romania has the third highest price for electricity in the European Union (0.42 EUR/kWh) and the sixth highest price for natural gas (0.14 EUR/kWh), according to official data reported by Eurostat for the first half of 2023.

On the other hand, also in this case it can be seen that Romania has a better or close accessibility index compared to the Eastern European states: if Bulgaria and Hungary are slightly better with a very close index (0.12), in countries such as Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Greece or Slovakia utility bills are more difficult to pay. At the opposite pole, residents of Sweden, Denmark and Finland pay their bills the easiest and have an affordability index of 0.3 – 0.5, while the continent’s big economies such as Germany, France or Italy are in the middle of the ranking with an index of 0.7 – 0.11.