Where Romania is heading, in data

Motorway network

kilometres in service

improving recent trend, computed over 2017–2024
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The most watched symbol of modernisation. The chart tells its own story: almost nothing until 2007, then a slope that steepens visibly in recent years. Romania is finally building, though from a historic deficit against its neighbours that has yet to be closed.

Source: Eurostat · Dataset: road_if_motorwa · Open source

Few indicators are this concrete: a kilometre of motorway either exists or it does not. Which is exactly why, here, the comparison with the neighbours says more than any European ranking.

Compared with Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria

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Hungary and Poland started building in earnest right after accession; Romania kept a token network for nearly two decades and has only begun catching up in recent years. Bulgaria moved earlier, but Romania's recent pace is stronger.

The gaps between Romania's regions (2024)

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Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics.

The network is concentrated on a few corridors in the south and west. Moldova — one of the country's most populous and poorest parts — is only now being connected: until recently the Nord-Est region had just a few dozen kilometres.

Source: Eurostat · Dataset: tran_r_net · Open source

Source and method

Across the period shown: from 113 km in 1990 to 1,137 km in 2024.

Source
Eurostat
Dataset
road_if_motorwa — Length of motorways and e-roads
API address
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/road_if_motorwa?format=JSON&lang=en&tra_infr=MWAY&unit=KM&geo=RO
Retrieved on
2026-07-08

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