Population (total, 1 January)

In 2025, Romania's population (total, 1 january) decreased by 0.1% compared to 2024, reaching 19,043,151.

Romania accounts for 4.2% of the EU-27 total of 450,646,971.

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 1.5% (from 19,328,838 in 2020).

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