- noun:Romanian(s)
- adjective:Romanian
Ethnic groups: Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002 census)
Languages: Romanian (official) 91%, Hungarian 6.7%, Romany (Gypsy) 1.1%, other 1.2%
Religions: Eastern Orthodox (including all sub-denominations) 86.8%, Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal) 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%, none 0.1% (2002 census)
Population: 21,790,479 (July 2013 est.)
country comparison to the world:n56
Age structure:
- 0-14 years:14.7% (male 1,642,950/female 1,556,430)
- 15-24 years:11.8% (male 1,317,820/female 1,255,982)
- 25-54 years:45.5% (male 5,000,720/female 4,904,527)
- 55-64 years:13% (male 1,319,066/female 1,508,158)
- 65 years and over:15.1% (male 1,326,641/female 1,958,185) (2013 est.)
Dependency ratios:
- total dependency ratio:43.3 %
- youth dependency ratio:21.6 %
- elderly dependency ratio:21.7 %
- potential support ratio:4.6 (2013)
Median age:
- total:39.4 years
- male:38 years
- female:41 years (2013 est.)
Population growth rate: -0.27% (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 216
country comparison to the world: 203
country comparison to the world: 30
Net migration rate: -0.25 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
- urban population:52.8% of total population (2011)
- rate of urbanization:-0.18% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas - population: BUCHAREST (capital) 1.933 million (2009)
- at birth:1.06 male(s)/female
- 0-14 years:1.06 male(s)/female
- 15-24 years:1.05 male(s)/female
- 25-54 years:1.02 male(s)/female
- 55-64 years:0.88 male(s)/female
- 65 years and over:0.68 male(s)/female
- total population:0.95 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth: 26 (2010 est.)
Maternal mortality rate: 27 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
country comparison to the world: 128
- total population:74.45 years
- country comparison to the world:110
- male:70.99 years
- female:78.13 years (2013 est.)
Total fertility rate: 1.31 children born/woman (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 213
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 69.8%
note: percent of women aged 15-49 (2005)
Health expenditures: 5.6% of GDP (2010)
country comparison to the world: 118
Physicians density: 1.92 physicians/1,000 population (2006)
Hospital bed density: 6.6 beds/1,000 population (2009)
Drinking water source:
improved:
- urban: 97% of population
- rural: 70% of population
- total: 84% of population
unimproved:
- urban: 3% of population
- rural: 30% of population
- total: 16% of population (2000 est.)
improved:
- urban: 88% of population
- rural: 54% of population
- total: 72% of population
unimproved:
- urban: 12% of population
- rural: 46% of population
- total: 28% of population (2008 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 162
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 16,000 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 83
HIV/AIDS - deaths: fewer than 1,000 (2009 est.)
country comparison to the world: 74
Obesity - adult prevalence rate: 19.1% (2008)
country comparison to the world: 101
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country comparison to the world: 101
- definition:age 15 and over can read and write
- total population:97.7%
- male:98.3%
- female:97.1% (2011 est.)
- total:14 years
- male:14 years
- female:15 years (2010)
- total number:26,658
- percentage:1 % (2000 est.)
