🇷🇴Romania

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Population

19M

0.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.39

births/woman

Life Expectancy

76.5y

GDP / capita

$22.5K

Pop. Growth

-0.17%

Net Migration

-29K

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 Romania by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇦Ukraine182.4K(31.2%)

21×

🇮🇹Italy87.7K(15.0%)

+446%

🇪🇸

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

Male9.2MTotal 19M9.8MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Abortion rate over time

Induced abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49

Source: WHO / Guttmacher (compiled)

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

1.1

per 100,000

Divorce rate

1.5

per 1,000 · 2020

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

95.0%

of households · 2020

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

🇲🇩Moldova80.6K(13.8%)

+114%

🇬🇧United Kingdom48.7K(8.3%)

26×

🇩🇪Germany18.4K(3.2%)

+431%

🇫🇷France11.8K(2.0%)

+308%

🇭🇺Hungary9.5K(1.6%)

+73%

🇺🇸United States9.4K(1.6%)

+335%

🇬🇷Greece7.8K(1.3%)

+98%

🇧🇪Belgium5.9K(1.0%)

+571%

🇹🇷Turkiye5.5K(0.9%)

+32%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Romania diaspora lives

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

🇩🇪Germany968.7K(21.1%)

+120%

🇮🇹Italy880.4K(19.2%)

+14%

🇬🇧United Kingdom713.6K(15.6%)

10×

🇪🇸Spain522.6K(11.4%)

−28%

🇭🇺Hungary253K(5.5%)

+18%

🇺🇸United States178.5K(3.9%)

+5%

🇦🇹Austria160.3K(3.5%)

+155%

🇫🇷France156.7K(3.4%)

+108%

🇧🇪Belgium131.4K(2.9%)

+287%

🇮🇱Israel116.3K(2.5%)

+22%

🇨🇦Canada88.3K(1.9%)

+6%

🇳🇱Netherlands55.4K(1.2%)

+374%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024