World population/Romania
Europe
Population of Romania
18,800,600
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#70
world rank
0.23%
of world population
-0.58%
yearly change
-109,039
people this year
176,198
births a year
255,926
deaths a year
How the figure for Romania is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Romania at 18,800,600 on 1 July 2026, and projects 18,691,561 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 Romania at number 70 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.23 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 50 entries in Europe.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 176,198 births and 255,926 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.
Other countries in Europe
Ranked by population.