Romania: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 16.4 million people, so the population is now 1.1 times as large.

The UN projects 176,000 births and 256,000 deaths in 2026, 79,700 more deaths than births.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 1993.

More people leave than move in: net migration in 2026 is projected at minus 29,000.

The median age is 43.5, which is 12.4 years above the world’s 31.1.

15% of the people are under 15 and 20% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

People aged 65 and over have outnumbered children under 15 since 2010.

Women have 1.7 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 3.1 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 76.4 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 60.5.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 16 million people, 15% fewer than now, with a median age of 46.2.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 75.9 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 18.4 more years for women and 15.0 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 31.4 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 47.8.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 10.8 million, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 5.79 million to 19.3 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 656,000 international migrants lived here, 3.4% of the population.

In mid-2024, 4.58 million people from here lived in other countries.