This article presents the demographic history of Romania through

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results. See

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for a more detailed overview of the country's present-day demographics. The 1930 census was the only one to cover

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. Censuses in 1948, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992, 2002, and 2011 covered Romania's present-day territory, as does the current 2022 census. All but the 1948 census, which asked about mother tongue, had a question on ethnicity.

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and

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each held a census in 1859. The Romanian Old Kingdom conducted statistical estimates in 1884, 1889, and 1894, and held censuses in 1899 and 1912.

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's regime also held two: a general one in April 1941, and one for those with "

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ish blood" in May, 1942.

1859–1860 census

1887 estimate

* Mainly in

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( details)

December 1899 census

19 December 1912 census

29 December 1930 census

6 April 1941 census

25 January 1948 census

21 February 1956 census

15 March 1966 census

5 January 1977 census

7 January 1992 census

18 March 2002 census

File:RoCensus2002Inhab.png, Ethnicity by county and number of inhabitants File:RoCensus2002Proc.png, Ethnicity by county and percentage

20 October 2011 census

Ethnic figures for 2011 are given as a percentage of individuals for whom data is available, while the "data unavailable" cohort is given as a percentage of the total population.

1 December 2021 census

The

2021 Romanian census The 2021 Romanian census () was a census held in Romania between 1 February and 31 July 2022, with the reference day for the census data set at 1 December 2021. The census was supposed to be done in 2021, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 ...

(RPL2021), with the reference day for the census data set at 1 December 2021, was held between February and July 2022, being postponed from its original scheduled year due to the

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. The first provisional results of the RPL2021 published at the end of 2022 show a resident population of Romania of 19,053,815 people.

References

External links

2011 Romanian census
site from the National Institute of Statistics {{Romanian censuses Demographics of Romania Historical geography of Romania

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