Romania · Government Spending · % GDP

## What this measures

Everything Romania's general government spends — wages, transfers, investment and interest — as a share of GDP.

## Why it matters

The size of the state, and the denominator for how much of the budget interest consumes.

## How to read it

Structural: it moves a few points a decade except in crises, when automatic stabilisers push it up fast.

## What it does not say

A large share is neither good nor bad on its own; it reflects what a society chooses to buy collectively.

## Source

Source: OECD Economic Outlook (CC BY 4.0), general government, annual. Palanor reads the standard definition where the OECD publishes one and the country-specific definition otherwise; points carry `definition: country-specific` in their metadata when the latter applies.