Romania’s GDP reached 240 billion euros in 2021, up 7% from the previous year

By rbj
Romania’s Gross Domestic Product increased in 2021 by 17 billion euros compared to 2019 and reached almost 1,190 billion lei, a historical record, according to the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Tourism, Constantin-Daniel Cadariu.
“Romania reaches at the end of 2021 a Gross Domestic Product of about 1.190 billion lei, about 240 billion euros. It is a historical record. Despite the biggest crisis in recent decades, Romania’s GDP has grown in 2021 by 17 billion euros compared to 2019 (a good year of the global economy in which we had a GDP of 223 billion euros) GDP in 2021 is 21 billion euros higher than last year (218.9 billion euros) when it was the height of the economic crisis Romania also ended 2021 with economic growth of about 7%, and at the beginning of the year, the Government had cautiously estimated an increase of 4.3%. then the one estimated for the budget for 2021 “, wrote Cadariu, on Monday, on his Facebook page.
In the fiscal-budgetary strategy for the period 2021-2023, on the basis of which the budget for last year was built, economic growth of 4.3% and a GDP of 1,116.837 billion lei were foreseen.
The National Commission for Strategy and Forecast estimated, in the medium-term forecast 2021 – 2025, the autumn variant, a value of the Gross Domestic Product of 1.190.3 billion lei, in 2021, increasing by 7% compared to the previous year.