This article presents the demographic history of Romania through
census results. See
Demographics of Romania for a more detailed overview of the country's present-day demographics.
The 1930 census was the only one to cover
Greater Romania. Censuses in 1948, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992, 2002, and 2011 covered Romania's present-day territory,[1] as does the current 2022 census.
All but the 1948 census, which asked about mother tongue, had a question on ethnicity.
Moldavia and
Wallachia 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.
Ion Antonescu's regime also held two: a general one in April 1941, and one for those with "
Jewish blood" in May, 1942.
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.
The
2021 Romanian census (RPL2021), with the reference day for the census data set at 1 December 2021,[17] was held between February and July 2022, being postponed from its original scheduled year due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Romania.[18] The first provisional results of the RPL2021 published at the end of 2022 show a resident population of Romania of 19,053,815 people.[17]
^Leonida Colescu, director of the Romanian Statistics Service between 1899 and 1922, conjectured that the number of people was overestimated in the census conducted in 1859-1860 and calculated that the real figure was 3,864,848 people. Colescu, Leonida (1944).
Analiza rezultatelor recensãmântului general al populației României din 1899(PDF). Institutul Național de Statistică. p. 7-8; 19.
^Parliamentary Reports. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1867. p. 153.
This article presents the demographic history of Romania through
census results. See
Demographics of Romania for a more detailed overview of the country's present-day demographics.
The 1930 census was the only one to cover
Greater Romania. Censuses in 1948, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992, 2002, and 2011 covered Romania's present-day territory,[1] as does the current 2022 census.
All but the 1948 census, which asked about mother tongue, had a question on ethnicity.
Moldavia and
Wallachia 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.
Ion Antonescu's regime also held two: a general one in April 1941, and one for those with "
Jewish blood" in May, 1942.
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.
The
2021 Romanian census (RPL2021), with the reference day for the census data set at 1 December 2021,[17] was held between February and July 2022, being postponed from its original scheduled year due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Romania.[18] The first provisional results of the RPL2021 published at the end of 2022 show a resident population of Romania of 19,053,815 people.[17]
^Leonida Colescu, director of the Romanian Statistics Service between 1899 and 1922, conjectured that the number of people was overestimated in the census conducted in 1859-1860 and calculated that the real figure was 3,864,848 people. Colescu, Leonida (1944).
Analiza rezultatelor recensãmântului general al populației României din 1899(PDF). Institutul Național de Statistică. p. 7-8; 19.
^Parliamentary Reports. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1867. p. 153.