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Romania

19,020,271

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-31.53K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000-15.3%from 22.44M
Life expectancy76.5 years2024
Fertility rate1.39births per woman · 2024
Urban population52.2%2025
RegionEurope & Central AsiaHigh income

A country at every age

How Romania is shaped by age.

A larger older population makes healthy ageing, care, and a smaller future workforce especially important.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1415.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6464.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+20.1%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate7.5births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate12.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-5.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-29.04Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Romania look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 16.03M in 2050—15.7% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202419.02M
  2. 205016.03M
  3. 210010.77M
Median age in 205046.2years
Births in 2050146.3Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050243.49Kduring the year
Life expectancy80.1years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196018.41M
  2. 197020.25M
  3. 198022.21M
  4. 199023.2M
  5. 200022.44M
  6. 201020.25M
  7. 202019.27M
  8. 202519.02M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 11/7/2026

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