National Institute of Statistics

Romania's natural population growth was negative in November 2019, while the number of deaths among infants aged less than one year was 72, by 25 fewer compared to October of the same year, show data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS), published on Tuesday.

The annual inflation rate went up 4 percent in December 2019, from 3.8 percent in November, given that food prices increased by 5.08 percent and non-food prices by 3.31 percent, while the price of services registered an advance of 4.16 percent, according to data released on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). "In December 2019, consumer prices were 4.0 percent higher YoY.

Arrivals registered in tourist accommodation establishments in Romania, in the first eleven months of 2019, totaled 12.434 million, up 3.7 pct compared to the same period last year, according to data released on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

Over 1.72 million tourist arrivals were registered in Bucharest in the first ten months of this year, the highest number being recorded in September, respectively 196,410, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Most arrivals, respectively 1.63 million (94.7pct of the total), were registered in hotels.

Bucharest, Dec 29 /Agerpres/ - The net investments materialized in new construction works totaled 35.577 billion lei in the first nine months of 2019, representing 53pct of total investments, compared to 44.9pct in the same period of last year, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics.

The number of non-resident tourists accommodated in the first nine months of 2019 in Romania's collective tourist accommodation units amounted to about 2.106 million people, and their spending exceeded 5.485 billion lei, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

The National Institute of Statistics (INS) has revised upwards to 4.4 pct the estimate regarding the advance of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018, according to the semi-definitive data published on Friday.

Trade turnover grew by 5.5pct as unadjusted series and by 6.2pct as adjusted series, in the first 10 months of this year compared to the same period of last year.

Job vacancies in Q3 2019 stood at 55,000, in line with the figure registered in the previous quarter, with the manufacturing industry accounting for almost a quarter of the total (specifically 13,600), according to data released on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).

In 2018, Romania spent 4.769 billion lei on research and development (R&D), the equivalent of 0.51% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).