Population — national citizens

In 2021, Romania's population decreased by 0.7% compared to 2020, reaching 19,057,045.

Romania accounts for 4.7% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 3.0% (from 19,653,350 in 2016).

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