According to information gathered by Info Sud-Est from all emergency inspectorates in the country, less than 3% of Romanians are placed in civil protection shelters in the event of a natural disaster.

In addition, according to data collected from city halls, an average of 4.8% of the population of the municipalities of residence in Romania would be accommodated in shelters. In the capital, 9.28% of Bucharest residents would find a place in a shelter.

For comparison, Finland and Switzerland have the capacity to shelter almost all of their residents, Denmark and Sweden – about 80% of the population, and Germany after the war in Ukraine began to modernize its shelters and increase the budget for civil defense.

Info Sud-Est has inventoried the number of “bunkers” in Romania, their capacity, when they were last restored, what communications they have and which municipalities allocated money in 2022 for their renewal and arrangement, in the conditions of the war in Ukraine.

ISE statistics do not take into account the basements of high-rise buildings or the entrances of the capital metro. In addition, due to heterogeneous data provided by city halls, ISU and prefectures, we could not determine in each case how many public shelters and how many private shelters, so we decided to use the total number of shelters. , public and private, existing in statistics.

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