Population — national citizens

In 2024, Romania's population decreased by 0.3% compared to 2023, reaching 18,780,989.

Romania accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 2.7% (from 19,293,182 in 2019).

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