Demographics of Romania

The evolution of the population between 1961 and 2010
Population	20,121,641 (2011 census)
Growth rate	-0.29% (2014)
Birth rate	9.27 births/1,000 population (2014)
Death rate	11.88 deaths/1,000 population (2014)
Life expectancy	75 years (2015)
• male	71.4 years
• female	78.8 years
Fertility rate	1.32 children born/woman (2014)
Infant mortality rate	9.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2012)
Net migration rate	-0.24 migrants/1,000 population (2015)
0–14 years	3,189,646 (15.8%)
15–64 years	13,684,251 (68.1%)
65 and over	3,247,744 (16.1%)
Total	0.95 males/female (2014)
At birth	1.06 males/female
Under 15	1.05 males/female
15–64 years	0.99 males/female
65 and over	0.69 males/female
Nationality	noun: Romanian(s), adjective: Romanian
Major ethnic	Romanian
Minor ethnic	Hungarian, Roma, Ukrainian, German, Russian, Turkish, Serbian, Slovak, etc.
Official	Romanian
Spoken	Romanian and other minority languages

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Romania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

About 89.4% of the people of Romania are ethnic Romanians, whose language, Romanian, is an Eastern Romance language, descended primarily from Latin with some Bulgarian, Serbian, German, Greek, Hungarian and Turkish borrowings. Romanians are by far the most numerous group of speakers of an Eastern Romance language today. It has been said that they constitute "an island of Latinity" in Eastern Europe, surrounded on all sides either by Slavic peoples or by the Hungarians.

The Hungarian minority in Romania constitutes the country's largest minority, 6.1 per cent of the population.

Romania's population declined steadily in recent years, from 21.7 million in 2002 to 19.9 million in 2014. More specifically, in the last decade, the population of Romania decreased by 7.5%, the most important moment for the country's demography being 2008, when the number of inhabitants dropped by 600,000 people. Among the causes of population decline are high mortality, low fertility rate after 1989, and emigration.