Population (total, 1 January)

In 2024, Romania's population (total, 1 january) increased by 0.1% compared to 2023, reaching 19,067,576.

Romania accounts for 4.2% of the EU-27 total of 449,306,184.

Romania ranks 6th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.8% (from 19,414,458 in 2019).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.