🇲🇩Moldova

Chisinau

Europe

Upper middle income

MDA

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Population

2.4M

1.7%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.73

births/woman

Life Expectancy

71.3y

GDP / capita

$8.6K

Pop. Growth

-1.75%

Net Migration

-29.8K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Moldova by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇦Ukraine143.6K(79.6%)

+161%

🇷🇺Russian Federation20.4K(11.3%)

−60%

🇷🇴

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male1.1MTotal 2.4M1.3MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

2.5

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇮🇹Italy2.6K(1.4%)

+88%

🇰🇿Kazakhstan2.5K(1.4%)

−52%

🇧🇾Belarus1K(0.6%)

−63%

🇹🇷Turkiye533(0.3%)

+29%

🇵🇹Portugal529(0.3%)

+46%

🇧🇬Bulgaria446(0.2%)

+246%

🇩🇪Germany429(0.2%)

−50%

🇦🇿Azerbaijan405(0.2%)

−56%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Moldova diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Moldova who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇮🇹Italy218.6K(25.3%)

+77%

🇷🇺Russian Federation166.2K(19.2%)

−42%

🇺🇦Ukraine154.3K(17.9%)

+3%

🇷🇴Romania80.6K(9.3%)

+114%

🇫🇷France54.3K(6.3%)

+578%

🇪🇸Spain25.8K(3.0%)

+51%

🇵🇹Portugal25.5K(2.9%)

+46%

🇨🇦Canada22.4K(2.6%)

+99%

🇮🇪Ireland19.8K(2.3%)

+517%

🇹🇷Turkiye16.8K(1.9%)

+93%

🇬🇷Greece10.9K(1.3%)

+2%

🇮🇱Israel10.1K(1.2%)

+23%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024