In your country, how common is it for people to speak with a so-called "standard" accent?

[Tooting Carmen]

In the UK, it is estimated that around 5% of the population speak Received Pronunciation, although many more people than this only have a very mild local accent that may not be easy to detect for people without trained ears.

[Jana]

Not sure, because my city is specific in that wee have no regional accent but speak standard Croatian. Two largest cities Zagreb and Split have heavy local accent/dialect.

[Tooting Carmen]

Not sure, because my city is specific in that wee have no regional accent but speak standard Croatian. Two largest cities Zagreb and Split have heavy local accent/dialect.

Well how common is it to meet people from Zagreb or Split who don't have the characteristic accent?

[Seya]

South romanians (wallachians and dobrogeans) speak standard romanian. Moldova and Transylvania have a regional accent

[templumForasticus]

There is no lisp, they don't pronounce word-final sss', anyway, I'd prefer it

[Jana]

Well how common is it to meet people from Zagreb or Split who don't have the characteristic accent?

They don't exist if they are local. It's not only accent but different dialect and vocabulary.

[Roy]

In my country unlike in the UK, among the people that I have contact with it is a rare occurence to come across anyone with an accent or speaking any real dialect of the language. It should be added, however, that it is possible that some people hide it when they talk to me and use their way of speaking only among their own (so I am someone external to them.). Some people from Upper Silesia that come here to work sometimes throw in some word, or two involuntarily that seem strange to me, and speak with a slight accent though. I'd say that maybe even around 80% of Poles use mostly 'standard' accent daily in a way that you mean in this thread. Here where I am 90%+ of people are like that.

South romanians (wallachians and dobrogeans) speak standard romanian. Moldova and Transylvania have a regional accent

So is it easy to guess that someone comes from Moldova or Republic of Moldova just from listening to them?

[Ion Basescul]

I'd say standard Romanian is common on TV/radio/school/uni, but rare casually.

[Narration]

Common, I guess.

[ixulescu]

Urban Romanians speak the same way everywhere, with only a few exceptions (like Iasi). Some will have a faint regional accent, but even Romanians don't notice it.

Rural Romanians have stronger regional accents.