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%).
Speech by Ambassador Angela Ganninger on the occasion of German Unity Day: “Mr. President of the Senate, Mr. Mircea Abrudean, Madam Deputy Prime Minister, Ms. Oana Gheorghiu, Madam Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Oana Țoiu, Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to welcome you to...
The “Teambuilding” phenomenon returns to the big screen: Teambuilding 2 opens in cinemas nationwide today After the first film drew more than one million cinema admissions, Horia and the gang return for another encounter with the absurdities of office life. Four years after its release, Teambuilding ranks first among the...
OMV Petrom and SNGN ROMGAZ SA, joint titleholders of the Neptun Deep block, expect first gas production to enter the National Transmission System (NTS) in the first half of 2027. “Narrowing the first gas window marks a major milestone for Neptun Deep and brings us closer to production, “said Christina...
Tools based on artificial intelligence are becoming the go-to problem-solvers for employees whenever a problem arises, according to the MKOR study “AI Adoption Report Romania 2026.” Roughly 1 in 5 employees (22%) ask an AI first, rather than a team colleague or direct manager. When they do not know how to solve a work task, […]
Prosecutors with the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) announced on Wednesday, October 7, that they had seized several bank accounts opened in Călin Georgescu’s name. It is not yet clear how many bank accounts were seized, but Digi24 sources referred to seven accounts holding...
Bucharest Photofest returns from October 9 to 18 with more than 200 artists and 40 events across ten venues in the Romanian capital. This year’s theme, “Witness,” explores photography as a form of social and cultural engagement. The programme includes work documenting the siege of Mariupol by Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, the human experience of […]
