Romania's population, calculated by residence, reached 21.873 million people on July 1, 2023, down 0.3% compared to the same month in 2022, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS), published Friday.The official statistics reveal that the urban population was 12.239 million people, down -0.8% from July 1, 2022. At the same time, the rural population was 9.634 million people, up 0.3% from the reference period.According to the cited source, on July 1, 2023, the female population stood at 11.2 million, down by more than 34,000 year-on-year, while the male population was 10.673 million, down by more than 35,000.The INS data show that the demographic ageing process has intensified compared to July 1, 2022, with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the share of the elderly population (aged 65 and over) and a slight 0.1 percentage point decrease in the share of young people (aged 0-14).At the same time, the demographic ageing index increased from 121.1 (on July 1, 2022) to 124.9 elderly persons per hundred young persons (on July 1, 2023).According to the INS, the average age of the population was 42.4 years during the period under review, 0.3 years higher than on July 1, 2022, and the median age was 43 years, up by 0.4 years.At the beginning of July this year, the largest share of the total population was in the 45-49 age group (8.5%). Among men, the share of this age group was 8.9% and among women, 8.2%.The share of the 0-4 age group was 4.5%, lower than that of the 5-9 age group (4.9%) and the 10-14 age group (5%).
Exim Banca Romaneasca supports the development of Romanian companies by granting loans for investments and working capital under advantageous conditions, with European guarantees that can cover up to 70% of the financing value, following the signing of a guarantee agreement between the bank and the European Investment Fund (EIF). EIF guarantees can be accessed under […]
Romania’s Ministry of Investments and European Projects will introduce an open data type of reporting, with all 17,000 projects included in the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Plan, or PNRR. The projects will be placed in a database indexable by location, type of beneficiary, or type of intervention, according to minister Dragoș Pîslaru. "We are talking […]
Romanian developer IULIUS announced on Tuesday, September 23, that it will invest EUR 29 million in “the largest bioremediation project in Europe by a private investor,” restoring 38 hectares of contaminated land in downtown Constanța as part of its EUR 800 million urban regeneration project. The site, once home to the city’s Oil Terminal platform, […]
The Prosecutor’s Office attached to Romania’s High Court requested that the European Parliament lift the immunity of MEP Diana Șoșoacă on Tuesday, September 23. The request relates to cases of unlawful deprivation of liberty, Holocaust denial, public promotion of the cult of persons convicted for genocide and war crimes, as well as fascist, legionary, racist, […]
Greek authorities have arrested two Romanian nationals on suspicion of espionage after they allegedly took pictures of the Hellenic Navy’s main base on the island of Salamina, the Coast Guard said on Tuesday, September 23, as reported by ekathimerini.com. The men, aged 52 and 22, were detained on Monday afternoon after Navy personnel spotted...
Last month, the Solis student team from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca crossed the Australian desert from north to south over 6 days aboard the solar-powered car “Hyperion.” The crossing was part of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2025, which took place on a 3,020 km route, from the cities of Darwin to Adelaide, crossing […]
