Population — national citizens

In 2022, Romania's population decreased by 0.8% compared to 2021, reaching 18,899,734.

Romania accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

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 3.2% (from 19,529,547 in 2017).

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