World population/Moldova
Europe
Population of Moldova
2,961,261
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#139
world rank
0.04%
of world population
-0.98%
yearly change
-28,872
people this year
29,962
births a year
42,143
deaths a year
How the figure for Moldova is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Moldova at 2,961,261 on 1 July 2026, and projects 2,932,389 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Moldova at number 139 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.04 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 29,962 births and 42,143 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
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