Romania is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe. Its borders are: the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of 238,397 square kilometers (92,046 sq mi) and a temperate-continental climate. With almost 20 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth-largest city in the EU, with 1,883,425 inhabitants as of 2011.
Demography, economy and culture
- Brianna Drîngă -
Current population Facts 2017
The current population of Romania is 19,646,785 as of Sunday, October 29, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates. This is a decrease of -0.79 % compared to the population of 19,426,550 the year before.
Current male population: 9,287,492 (48.5%)
Current female population: 9,857,450 (51.5%)
Romania population is equivalent to 0.26% of the total world population.
Romania ranks number 59 in the list of countries by population
The population density in Romania is 85 per km2 (221 people per mi2).
59.9 % of the population is urban (11,785,372 people in 2017)
The median age in Romania is 41.6 years.
Population decline below are the key figures for Romania population in 2017:
496 live births average per day (20.68 in an hour)
682 deaths average per day (28.43 in an hour)
-232 emigrants average per day (-9.66 in an hour)
The population of Romania is declined by 418 persons daily in 2017.
Causes of the population declineThe causes of population decline are mortality, low fertility rate and emigration. For the entire period 1990–2006 the estimated population loss is 1.5 million.
Due to external migration, the population declined by 85,283. It means that the number of people who left Romania to settle permanently in another country (emigrants) prevailed over the number of people who moved into the country (to which they are not native) in order to settle there as permanent residents (immigrants).
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The current population of Romania is 19,646,785 as of Sunday, October 29, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates. This is a decrease of -0.79 % compared to the population of 19,426,550 the year before.
Current male population: 9,287,492 (48.5%)
Current female population: 9,857,450 (51.5%)
Romania population is equivalent to 0.26% of the total world population.
Romania ranks number 59 in the list of countries by population
The population density in Romania is 85 per km2 (221 people per mi2).
59.9 % of the population is urban (11,785,372 people in 2017)
The median age in Romania is 41.6 years.
Population decline below are the key figures for Romania population in 2017:
496 live births average per day (20.68 in an hour)
682 deaths average per day (28.43 in an hour)
-232 emigrants average per day (-9.66 in an hour)
The population of Romania is declined by 418 persons daily in 2017.
Causes of the population declineThe causes of population decline are mortality, low fertility rate and emigration. For the entire period 1990–2006 the estimated population loss is 1.5 million.
Due to external migration, the population declined by 85,283. It means that the number of people who left Romania to settle permanently in another country (emigrants) prevailed over the number of people who moved into the country (to which they are not native) in order to settle there as permanent residents (immigrants).
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History of the economy in Romania
Romanian exports
Facts about ECONOMY
Romania, as part of the European Union single market, is a fast developing, upper-middle income mixed economy with a very high Human Development Index and a skilled labour force.
Romania, as part of the European Union single market, is a fast developing, upper-middle income mixed economy with a very high Human Development Index and a skilled labour force.
- The 41st-largest economy in the world (out of 188 countries measured by IMF) with $435,454 billion annual output
- Considerable economic potential: over 10 million hectares of agricultural land, diverse energy sources (coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear and wind) and opportunities for expanded development in tourism on the Black Sea and in the mountains.
- The top 10 exports of Romania are vehicles, machinery, chemical goods, electronic products, electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, transport equipment, basic metals, food products, and rubber and plastics.
- Italy is Romania's largest trading partner. The principal exports from Italy to Romania include computers, integrated circuits, aircraft parts and other defense equipment, wheat, and automobiles.
- GDP of 1.1%.
CULTURE OF ROMANIA- FACTS
National dish: Sarmale (a mixture of pork, beef, and lamb, or just plain pork, with onions and rice, wrapped in semi-sour cabbage, served with cornmeal- “mămăligă”).
Specific holidays: Mărţişor (on March 1), men offer a jewelry with a red-white thread to women.
The most popular landmark: Bran Castle, commonly known as "Dracula's Castle”.
Famous Romanian personalities: Constantin Brâncuşi (1876 - 1957), the artist whose works redefined sculpture, the most important sculptor of the Twentieth-Century; Nadia Comăneci, a gymnastics legend, the first in the world to score a perfect 10.
•http://countrymeters.info/en/Romania
•http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/romania-population/
•http://www.indexmundi.com/romania/demographics_profile.html
•https://www.focus-economics.com/countries/romania
•http://globeaware.org/destinations/eastern-europe/romania/item/5828-culture
•http://www.bran-castle.com/dracula.html
National dish: Sarmale (a mixture of pork, beef, and lamb, or just plain pork, with onions and rice, wrapped in semi-sour cabbage, served with cornmeal- “mămăligă”).
Specific holidays: Mărţişor (on March 1), men offer a jewelry with a red-white thread to women.
The most popular landmark: Bran Castle, commonly known as "Dracula's Castle”.
Famous Romanian personalities: Constantin Brâncuşi (1876 - 1957), the artist whose works redefined sculpture, the most important sculptor of the Twentieth-Century; Nadia Comăneci, a gymnastics legend, the first in the world to score a perfect 10.
•http://countrymeters.info/en/Romania
•http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/romania-population/
•http://www.indexmundi.com/romania/demographics_profile.html
•https://www.focus-economics.com/countries/romania
•http://globeaware.org/destinations/eastern-europe/romania/item/5828-culture
•http://www.bran-castle.com/dracula.html
The Ethnical and Religious Structure of Romania
- Galati David -
Officially, 10.5% of Romania's population is represented by minorities (the rest of 89.5% being Romanians). The principal minorities in Romania are Hungarians (Szeklers and Magyars; see Hungarians in Romania) (especially in Harghita, Covasna and Mureș counties) and Romani people, with a declining German population (in Timiș, Sibiu, Brașov) and smaller numbers of Poles in Bucovina (Austria-Hungary attracted Polish miners, who settled there from the Kraków region in Poland in the 19th century), Serbs, Croats, Slovaks and Banat Bulgarians (in Banat), Ukrainians (in Maramureș and Bukovina), Greeks (Brăila, Constanța), Jews (Bukovina, Bucharest), Turks and Tatars (in Constanța), Armenians, Russians (Lippovans, in Tulcea) and others. Minority populations are greatest in Transylvania and the Banat, areas in the north and west, which were possessions of Hungary (since 1867 as part of Austria-Hungary) until World War I.
Data Sources:
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demografia_Rom%C3%A2niei
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom%C3%A2nia
https://www.news.ro/economic/declinul-demografic-din-romania-s-a-agravat-in-prima-luna-din-2017-ca-urmare-a-cresterii-numarului-de-decese-cu-23-mortalitatea-infantila-in-crestere-puternica-a-doua-luna-la-rand-1922402317252017030916844954
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorities_of_Romania
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demografia_Rom%C3%A2niei
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom%C3%A2nia
https://www.news.ro/economic/declinul-demografic-din-romania-s-a-agravat-in-prima-luna-din-2017-ca-urmare-a-cresterii-numarului-de-decese-cu-23-mortalitatea-infantila-in-crestere-puternica-a-doua-luna-la-rand-1922402317252017030916844954
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorities_of_Romania
Gender pyramid graph
- Ruxandra Duță -
The population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of Romania's population in 2016. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the right and females on the left. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.
Data sources :
https://populationpyramid.net/romania/2016/
http://www.indexmundi.com/romania/age_structure.html
Data sources :
https://populationpyramid.net/romania/2016/
http://www.indexmundi.com/romania/age_structure.html
Is the population of Romania increasing or decreasing?
- Maria Blioju -
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According to the published data on January 2017 by the National Statistics Inspectorate of Romania, the population declined steadily in recent years, from 21.7 million in 2002 to 19.9 million in 2017. This means that the population of Romania decreased by 7.5% in just 12 years.
The main cause of this decline in population is represented by the phenomenon of demographic ageing which is due to a drop in birth rates. The birth rates, in its turn, have fallen because of the changing of the way of life of many people. More and more are putting the career ahead and postponing the moment of bringing a child to the world.As the fertility reaches the lowest levels, the people at the ages of reproduction have fewer children; so, the relative share of young people decreases and the percentage of the elderly population increases.
The evolution of population structure, by major age groups, shows the extent of the demographic aging phenomenon of the population: If in 1975 the age group over 65 years represented 9.6% from the total population, in 2017 is almost twice as big (17.8 %), while the share of children with the age under 15 years, which in 1975 exceeded a quarter of the total population (25.2%), has reduced to just 15,6 % in 2017.
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The second main cause of the population decrease is the phenomenon of emigration. The balance of international migration in 2016 was negative, the number of emigrants surpassing the number of immigrants by over 76 thousands of people; 18 thousands bigger than the number of emigrants from 2015.
The population age structure by major age groups ( UE )
Is Romania the only country affected by this phenomenon of demographic ageing?
Romania is not the only country which faces a population decline due to this demographic ageing. Across the EU Member States, the highest share of young people in the total population in 2016 was observed in Ireland (21.9 %), while the lowest share was recorded in Germany (13.2 %). Regarding the share of persons aged 65 or older in the total population, Italy (22.0 %), Greece (21.3 %) and Germany (21.1 %) had the highest shares, while Ireland had the lowest share (13.2 %).
Romania is not the only country which faces a population decline due to this demographic ageing. Across the EU Member States, the highest share of young people in the total population in 2016 was observed in Ireland (21.9 %), while the lowest share was recorded in Germany (13.2 %). Regarding the share of persons aged 65 or older in the total population, Italy (22.0 %), Greece (21.3 %) and Germany (21.1 %) had the highest shares, while Ireland had the lowest share (13.2 %).
Bibliography:
www.innse.ro
ec.europa.eu/eurostat
https://en.wikipedia.org
www.romanialibera.ro
www.innse.ro
ec.europa.eu/eurostat
https://en.wikipedia.org
www.romanialibera.ro