Population — national citizens

In 2023, Romania's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2022, reaching 18,833,798.

Romania accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 19,419,128 in 2018).

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