Population — national citizens

In 2017, Romania's population decreased by 0.6% compared to 2016, reaching 19,529,547.

Romania accounts for 4.7% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

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 2.5% (from 20,022,190 in 2012).

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