Population — national citizens

In 2025, Romania's population decreased by 0.6% compared to 2024, reaching 18,674,247.

Romania accounts for 4.6% of the EU-27 total of 405,729,577.

Romania ranks 6th out of 26 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 19,188,760 in 2020).

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