According to Eurostat, Romania has dropped to last place in the EU for working life expectancy, after being much higher in the ranking a year ago.

This indicator shows how long a person who is currently 15 years old will be active in the labor market for a given country and year during their lifetime.

In the case of Romania, if in 2000 a young person remained active for 36 years, in 2021 they would have been active for only 31.3 years. In Europe, Icelanders “work” the most, Turkey has the lowest figure – 29 years, at the opposite pole – Iceland with 44.6 years of active professional life, followed by the Dutch and Swiss – 42.5 years each. .

If we look separately at the data by gender, Romanian men take the penultimate place, with 35 years of professional life, only Bulgarians work less (34.6 years).

Among women, we are also in second last place (27.4 years), Romanians are ahead of Italians, who have 26.9 years.

Aggregating the data, we remain in last place, while Italy is next to last, and the Greeks are second to last.

In 2000, Romanians had the seventh longest working life in Europe, very close to Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries. Over time, this interval of active life has been increasingly shortened, and if in 2020 we were in the 8th place from the tail of Europe, now we are in the last place.