Editing Demographics of Romania (section)

==Censuses in Romania==

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|+ Evolution of Romania's population between 1859–1899<ref name="Leonida Colescu"> Leonida Colescu, director of Romanian Statistics Service between 1899–1922, discovered 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. {{cite book |last1=Leonida Colescu |title=Analiza rezultatelor recensãmântului general al populatiei României din 1899 |date=1944 |publisher=Institutul National de Statistica |page=7–8; 19 |url=http://omeka.bjc.ro/omeka/files/original/23/1264/BJAman_T_II_3.030.1.pdf}}</ref>
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! Year !! Population 
|-
| 1859–60|| 3,864,848<ref name="Leonida Colescu"></ref>−4,424,961<ref>{{cite book |title=Atunci și acum: Principatele Unite (1859) și România (2022) |publisher=Institutul National de Statistica |url=https://insse.ro/cms/files/newsletter/2023/unire_final.pdf}}</ref>  
|-
| 1884|| 4,648,123 
|-
| 1889|| 5,038,342 
|-
| 1894|| 5,406,249 
|-
| 1899|| 5,956,690 
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Population of Romania according to ethnic group in 1899<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrei Tudorel (coordonator) |title=Romania un secol de istorie – date statistice |date=2018 |publisher=Institutul National de Statistica |pages=19–20 |url=https://insse.ro/cms/files/evenimente/RoCentenar/ROCentenar.pdf}}</ref>
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! Ethnicity !! Number !! %
|-
| [[Romanians]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 92.15
|-
| [[Hungarians]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 1.82 
|-
| [[Germans]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.13
|-
| [[Austrians]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| –
|-
|-
| [[Russians]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"|  0.08
|-
| [[Bulgarians]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0,13
|-
| [[Turkish people|Turks]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.40
|-
|-
| [[Serbs]]|| style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.07
|-
|-
| [[Greeks]]|| style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.34
|-
| [[Italians]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.15
|-
|-
| [[Foreigners without protection]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 4,68
|-
| Others || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.00
|-
| Unknown || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.00
|-
| Total ||5,956,690|| 
|}

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|width=650px
|title= Population of Romania according to religion in 1899
|titlebar=#ddd
|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodoxy]] |blue|91.5}}
{{bar percent|[[Judaism]] |red|4.5}}
{{bar percent|[[Catholicism]] |brown|2.5}}
{{bar percent|[[Protestantism]] |green|0.4}}
{{bar percent|[[Muslims|Muslim]] |gray|0.7}}
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Population of Romania according to ethnic group in 1912<ref>{{cite book |last1=Andrei Tudorel (coordonator) |title=Romania un secol de istorie – date statistice |date=2018 |publisher=Institutul National de Statistica |pages=21–23 |url=https://insse.ro/cms/files/evenimente/RoCentenar/ROCentenar.pdf}}</ref>
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! Ethnicity !! Number !! %
|-
| [[Romanians]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 93.47 
|-
| [[Hungarians]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.96 
|-
| [[Germans]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.11
|-
| [[Austrians]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.63
|-
|-
| [[Russians]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.06
|-
| [[Bulgarians]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.16
|-
| [[Turkish people|Turks]] || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.47
|-
|-
| [[Serbs]]|| style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.06
|-
|-
| [[Greeks]]|| style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.24
|-
| [[Italians]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.15
|-
|-
| [[Foreigners without protection]] || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 3.63
|-
| Others || style="text-align:right;"|  || style="text-align:right;"| 0.01
|-
| Unknown || style="text-align:right;"| || style="text-align:right;"| 0.01
|-
| Total || 7,234,920 || 
|}

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|title= Population of Romania according to religion in 1912
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|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodoxy]] |blue|93.1}}
{{bar percent|[[Judaism]] |red|3.3}}
{{bar percent|[[Catholicism]] |brown|2.2}}
{{bar percent|[[Protestantism]] |green|0.3}}
{{bar percent|[[Muslims|Muslim]] |gray|0.7}}
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Population of Romania according to ethnic group in 1930<ref>{{cite book | title = Populația pe Neamuri | pages = XXIV | publisher = Institutul Central de Statistică | url = http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Recensamant1930-II-XXIV.jpg | access-date = 2008-07-20 | language = ro }}</ref>
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! Ethnicity !! Number !! %
|-
| [[Romanians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 12,981,324 || style="text-align:right;"| 71.9
|-
| [[Hungarians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 1,425,507 || style="text-align:right;"| 7.9
|-
| [[Germans]] || style="text-align:right;"| 745,421 || style="text-align:right;"| 4.1
|-
| [[Jews]] || style="text-align:right;"| 728,115 || style="text-align:right;"| 4.0
|-
| [[Ruthenians]] and [[Ukrainians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 582,115 || style="text-align:right;"| 3.2
|-
| [[Russians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 409,150 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.3
|-
| [[Bulgarians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 366,384 || style="text-align:right;"| 2.0
|-
| [[Romani people in Romania|Roma (Gypsies)]] || style="text-align:right;"| 262,501 || style="text-align:right;"| 1.5
|-

| [[Turkish people|Turks]] || style="text-align:right;"| 154,772 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.9
|-
| [[Gagauzians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 105,750 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.6
|-
| [[Czechs]] and [[Slovaks]] || style="text-align:right;"| 51,842 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.3
|-
| [[Serbs]], [[Croats]] and [[Slovenes]] || style="text-align:right;"| 51,062 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.3
|-
| [[Polish people|Poles]] || style="text-align:right;"| 48,310 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.3
|-
| [[Greeks]] || style="text-align:right;"| 26,495 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.2
|-
| [[Tatars]] || style="text-align:right;"| 22,141 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.1
|-
| [[Armenians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 15,544 || style="text-align:right;"| <0.1
|-
| [[Hutsuls]] || style="text-align:right;"| 12,456 || style="text-align:right;"| <0.1
|-
| [[Albanians]] || style="text-align:right;"| 4,670 || style="text-align:right;"| <0.1
|-
| Others || style="text-align:right;"| 56,355 || style="text-align:right;"| 0.3
|-
| Undeclared || style="text-align:right;"| 7,114 || style="text-align:right;"| <0.1
|-
| Total || 18,057,028 || 100.0
|}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|+ Population of Romania according to ethnic group 1948–2021
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group
! colspan="2" | census 1948<sup>1</sup>
! colspan="2" | census 1956<sup>2</sup>
! colspan="2" | census 1966<sup>3</sup>
! colspan="2" | census 1977<sup>4</sup>
! colspan="2" | census 1992<sup>5</sup>
! colspan="2" | census 2002<sup>6</sup>
! colspan="3" | census 2011<sup>7</sup>
! colspan="3" | census 2021<sup>8</sup>
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! Number
! %
! %<sup>*</sup>
! Number
! %
! %<sup>*</sup>
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Romanians]] || 13,597,613 || 85.7 || 14,996,114 || 85.7 || 16,746,510 || 87.7 || 18,999,565 || 88.1 || 20,408,542 || 89.5 || 19,399,597 || 89.5|| 16,792,868|| <small>83.5</small>
|88.9|| 14,801,442|| <small>77.7</small>
|89.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Hungarians]] ||  1,499,851 || 9.4 || 1,587,675 || 9.1 || 1,619,592 || 8.5 ||  1,713,928 || 7.9 || 1,624,959 || 7.1 ||  1,431,807 || 6.6||  1,227,623 || <small>6.1</small>
|6.5||1,002,151 || <small>5.3</small>
|6.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Romani people in Romania|Roma (Gypsies)]] ||  53,425 || 0.3 ||  104,216 || 0.6 || 64,197 || 0.3 ||  227,398 || 1.05 || 401,087 || 1.8 || 535,140 || 2.5|| 621,573 || <small>3.1</small>
|3.3|| 569,477 || <small>3.0</small>
|3.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Ukrainians]] || 37,582 || 0.2 || 60,479 || 0.4 || 54,705 || 0.3 || 55,510 || 0.3 || 65,764 || 0.3 ||  61,098 || 0.3|| 50,920 || <small>0.3</small>
|0.3||45,835 || <small>0.3</small>
|0.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Germans]]|| 343,913 || 2.2 || 384,708 || 2.2 || 382,595 || 2.0 || 359,109 || 1.6 || 119,462 || 0.5 || 59,764|| 0.3|| 36,042 || <small>0.2</small>
|0.2|| 22,907 || <small>0.1</small>
|0.1
|-
| align="left" |  [[Turkish people|Turks]]|| | 28,782 ||| 0.2 ||  14,329 || 0.2 ||  18,040 || 0.1 ||  23,422 || 0.1 ||  29,832 || 0.1 ||  32,098 || 0.2|| 27,698|| <small>0.1</small>
|0.1|| 20,945||<small>0.1</small>
|0.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Russians]]|| rowspan="2" | 39,332 || rowspan="2" | 0.2 || rowspan="2" | 38,731 || rowspan="2" | 0.2 || rowspan="2" | 39,483 || rowspan="2" | 0.2 ||  21,206 || 0.2 || 7,983 || 0.1 || rowspan="2" | 35,791|| rowspan="2" | 0.2 || rowspan="2" | 23,864 || rowspan="2" | <small>0.1</small>
| rowspan="2" |0.1|| rowspan="2" | 19,394|| rowspan="2" |<small>0.1</small>
| rowspan="2" |0.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Lipovans]]||  11,090  || 0.1 ||  30,623 || 0.2 
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Tatars]] 
|
|
|
|
|
| || 23,369 || 0.1 ||24,596|| 0.1
|
|
|
|
|
|18,156
|<small>0.1</small>
|0.1
|-
| align="left" |  [[Serbs]]|| rowspan="3" | 45,447 || rowspan="3" | 0.3 || rowspan="3" | 46,517 || rowspan="3" | 0.3 || rowspan="3" | 44,236 || rowspan="3" | 0.3 || 34,429 || 0.2 ||  29,408 || 0.1 ||  22,561 || 0.1||18,076||<small>0.1</small>
|0.1||12,026||<small>0.0</small>
|0.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Croats]]||  7,500 || 0.0 ||  4,085 || 0.0 || 6,807 || 0.0||5,408||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0||4,842||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Slovenes]]|| || || || ||  175 || 0.0|| ||
| || ||
|
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Slovaks]]|| rowspan="2" |35,143 || rowspan="2" | 0.2 || 23,331 || 0.2 || 22,151 || 0.1 ||  21,286 || 0.1 ||  19,594 || 0.1 ||  17,226 || 0.2||13,654||<small>0.1</small>
|0.1||10,232||<small>0.0</small>
|0.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Czechs]]||  11,821 || 0.0 || 9,978 || 0.0 ||  7,683 || 0.0 || 5,797 || 0.0 ||  3,941 || 0.0||2,477||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0||1,576||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Bulgarians]]|| 13,408 || 0.1 || 12,040 || 0.1 ||  11,193 || 0.1 ||  10,372 || 0.0 || 9,851 || 0.1 || 8,025 || 0.0|| 7,336||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0||5,975||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Greeks]]||  8,696 || 0.1 || 11,166 || 0.0 ||  9,088 || 0.0 || 6,262 || 0.0 || 3,940 || 0.0 || 6,472 || 0.0||3,668||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0||2,086||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Jews]]||  138,795 || 0.9 ||  146,264 || 0.8 ||  42,888 || 0.2 ||  24,667 || 0.1 ||8,955 || 0.0 || 5,785 || 0.0|| 3,271||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0|| 2,378||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| align="left" |  [[Polish people|Poles]]||  6,753 || 0.0 ||  7,627 || 0.0 ||  5,860 || 0.0|| 4,641|| 0.0 ||  4,232 || 0.0 ||  3,559 || 0.0|| 2,543||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0|| 2,137||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| align="left" |  [[Armenians]]|| 6,987 || 0.0 ||  6,441 || 0.0 ||  3,436 || 0.0 || 2,342 || 0.0 || 1,957 || 0.0 ||  1,780 || 0.0|| 1,361||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0|| 1,213||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| align="left" |  [[Ethnic Macedonians|Macedonians]]|| || || || || || ||  1,176 || 0.0 ||   6,867 || 0.0 ||  731 || 0.0|| 1,264||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0|| 1,089||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0
|-
| align="left" |  [[Csangos]]|| || || || || || || || || || ||  1,266|| 0.0|| 1,536||<small>0.0</small>
|0.0|| ||
|
|-
| style="text-align:left;" | [[Aromanians]]
|
|
|
|
|
| || style="text-align:right;" | 982 || 0.0 || style="text-align:right;" |  21,736 || 0.1  
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|align="left"|  Others || style="text-align:right;" | 15,897 || 0.1 || style="text-align:right;"| 17,522 || 0.1 || style="text-align:right;"| 6,990 || <0.1 || style="text-align:right;"| 5,731 || <0.1 || style="text-align:right;"| 9,368 || <0.1 || style="text-align:right;"| 28,303 || 0.1|| 23,741||<small>0.1</small>
|0.1|| 25,028||<small>0.2</small>
|
|-
|align="left"|  Undeclared ||  || ||  || || || ||  ||  || ||  ||  || || 1,236,810||6.14
| || 2,484,926||13.0
|
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! style="text-align:left;"| Total
! colspan="2" | 15,872,624
! colspan="2" | 17,489,450
! colspan="2" | 19,103,163
! colspan="2" | 21,559,910
! colspan="2" | 22,810,035
! colspan="2" | 21,680,974
! colspan="3" | 20,121,641
! colspan="3" | 19,053,815
|-
! colspan="19" style="text-align:left;" | <small><sup>1</sup> The results of the 1948 census are according to language. <sup>2</sup> Source:<ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web |author=Varga E. Árpád |url=http://www.kia.hu/konyvtar/erdely/supplem.htm |title=Hungarians in Transylvania between 1870 and 1995. Supplementary Tables |publisher=Kia.hu |access-date=2018-04-11 |archive-date=2019-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323041307/http://www.kia.hu/konyvtar/erdely/supplem.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> <sup>3</sup> Source:<ref name="autogenerated2"/> <sup>4</sup> Source:<ref name="autogenerated2"/> <sup>5</sup> Source:<ref name="autogenerated2"/> <sup>6</sup> Source:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insse.ro/cms/files/RPL2002INS/vol4/tabele/t1.pdf |title=Population data |website=www.insse.ro |access-date=2014-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109174832/http://www.insse.ro/cms/files/RPL2002INS/vol4/tabele/t1.pdf |archive-date=2013-11-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref> <sup>7</sup> Source:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/REZULTATE-DEFINITIVE-RPL_2011.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - REZULTATE DEFINITIVE RPL2011.doc |access-date=2018-04-11 |archive-date=2013-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717125951/http://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/REZULTATE-DEFINITIVE-RPL_2011.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> <sup>8</sup> Source:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/com_pdf/cp-date-provizorii-rpl_2.pdf |title=Population data |website=wwwi.insse.ro |access-date=2023-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230125029/https://insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/com_presa/com_pdf/cp-date-provizorii-rpl_2.pdf |archive-date=2022-12-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref></small>%*<small>:</small> <small>of those declared ethnicity</small>
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