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Romania has the lowest percentage of the population travelling annually for personal purposes
Romania has the lowest percentage of the population which travels annually for personal purposes, even under Bulgaria, under 27% of the population of the country travelled at least for one night in 2020, according to an infographic Social Monitor, a project of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Romania.
‘Only 18% of the Romanians between 15 and 65 travelled for personal purposes for at least one night in 2020. By comparison, approximately 68% of the citizens in Finland or the Netherlands of the same age travelled in 2020.
By comparison, approximately 68% of the citizens in Finland or the Netherlands of the same age travelled in 2020. Romania has the lowest percentage of the population who travels annually for a personal purpose, even under Bulgaria, where 27% of the population of the country travelled at least for one night in 2020’ the infographic says.
According to the quoted source, these figures are influenced by the pandemics of Covid-19 started in 2020, but Romania had the last place in this top even before. In 2019, only 28% of the Romanians between 15 and 85 travelled for at least one night for a personal purpose, while the percentage in Bulgaria was 37%, in Finland 81% and in the Netherlands -84%.
‘The most accentuated discrepancy is recorded among the population over 65, whee only 7% of the Romanian citizens travelled in 2020 by comparison to 54% of the Dutch and 49% of the Finns. Before the pandemics, only 13% of the citizens over 65 in Romania travelled, by comparison to 74% in the Netherlands or 40% in Poland’ according to the study.