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Romania - strategic destination for investments www.cjsj.ro
Member of the European Union (EU) and NATO, located in
8.859
Southeastern Europe, Romania has had a positive dynamics in 7.536 8.059
terms of investment levels in recent years: they reached almost 6.634 7.220 4,80 %
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25 % of GDP in 2016 , a level above the EU average of 19 % of
3,90 %
GDP.
3,10 %
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According to the World Bank and the 2018 report, Romania
3,50 %
ranks 45th around the world at the ease of doing business index,
ascending 5 positions compared to 2014.
0,60 %
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Malta (#84) 64,72 GDP per capita
Economic growth rate (GDP, annual variation %)
Greece (#67) 68,02
Figure 2. GDP per capita and growth rate
Cyprus (#53) 71,63
Bulgaria (#50) 71,91
In terms of administration, Romania is organized in com-
Hungary (#48) 72,39 munes, towns and counties, with 41 counties and the capital
Italy (#46) 72,70 city of Bucharest, as well as eight development regions, cor-
Romania (#45) 72,87 responding to the NUTS-2 level of EU divisions, but without
Slovenia (#37) 75,42 administrative capacities.
Czech Republic(#30) 76,27
Poland (#27) 77,30
Figure 1. Worldwide location in the ease of doing business

Romania recorded a GDP of 169.6 billion euros in 2016,
above GDP levels in Bulgaria, Hungary and Ukraine, and below
the level of the Czech Republic, Greece and Portugal, accord-
ing to Eurostat, with significant increases and its per capita
inhabitant, from: 6 634 euros in 2012 to an increase of 4,8 %
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in 2016 .

Figure 3. Map of development regions in Romania
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