Demographics in general embraces into its fold the people of the country, their language, religion, and culture, and the statistics of the population. A study of Romania’s Demographics constitutes the same.
The total population of Romania amounts to 19.7 million. 52.70% of the population is urban while 47.30% is settled in rurality.
The vast majority of the people of Romania are Romanians constituting 89.5% of the population. The remaining percentage includes the Romas (2.5%), the Hungarians (6.6%), the Ukrainians (0.3%), the Russians (0.2%), the Germans (0.3%), the Turkish (0.2%) and the others (0.4%).
Romania’s official language of communication is Romanian. The other languages that are widely used are German and Hungarian.
Following Romania Demographics, 4.7% of the population are Roman Catholics, 7.5% are Protestants and 86.8% are Eastern Orthodox. Islam, Unitarians, and the other religions in Romania are practiced in small numbers.
The culture of Romania is very rich and vibrant. The traditional folk arts include ceramics, wood carving, embroidery of costumes, weaving, and also dance and folk music.
Romania’s Demographics have a literacy rate of 98.4% of the total population. 99.1% of the male and 97.7% of the female population can read and write. People the age of 15 and over are literate.
Romania’s Demographics chart a growth rate of the population of -0.12%. The birth rate in Romania is 10.7% and the death rate is 11.77%. The life expectancy for men is 67 years and 74 years for females. The net migration rate is -0.13%.