We have a large number of children born abroad and registered in Romania (2009 – 2022): 410,927 children out of a total of 2,880,097 children, INS President Tudorel Andrej recently said at a conference at the Romanian Academy.

According to the 2022 census, the majority were born in Spain, Italy, the Republic of Moldova and Great Britain.

In 2020, just over 17,000 Romanians were born abroad, compared to more than 35,000 in 2019, according to data sent by the National Institute of Statistics upon request to HotNews.ro. In Great Britain, for example, births to Romanian mothers rose from 9th place (in 2012) to third (in 2019) of the total number of births to non-residents (after Poland and Pakistan, but very close to them).

In 2009-2021, 365,000 Romanian children were born abroad. At least one parent is Romanian and registered in Romania. This is a direct effect of the international migration that we had during 2002, 2009, 2010. In 2007, migration amounted to more than half a million people,” explains the head of the INS.

If in 2007 a very young population emigrated to us – the average age was 29 years old, now they leave the country at the average age of 34 years – said the president of INS Tudorel Andriy at the “Family Health and Birth” conference held in the Romanian Academy. In addition, the average age at first birth for adolescent mothers from disadvantaged rural areas in Romania is 16 years for the first birth and 18 years for the second.

Tudorel Andrii also presented a map with the distribution of children born abroad and registered in Romania by district, as well as the first 3 countries where they were born.

Below is the time share of children born outside the country in the total number of births

Some features of population reduction (RPL2021 vs. RPL2011)

• A decrease of 5.3% at the level of the entire population;

• Decrease by 8.4% of the population under 8 years;

• 5.7% decrease in the population under 10 years of age;

• The share of the adult population (15-64 years) decreases from 68.0% to 64.3%;

• The share of the adult population in the age group of 55-64 years decreases from 19.7% to 18.2%;

• The share of the population over 65 years old is growing from 16.1% to 19.6%.

Demographic aging index

121.2 elderly people (65 years and older) per 100 young people (up to 15 years old), more by approx. 20% in relation to the value of the indicator determined at RPL2011 (101.8).

Demographic dependence report

55.5 young and elderly per 100 adults compared to 47.0 in RPL 2011.

Migration

International migration significantly reduced the permanent population of Romania, especially in the first 20 years of the transition.

From 2031, those born after 1967 will fall into the group of elderly people.

The average age has increased

1990 – average age (34.5; 33.4 (M); 35.6 (W))

2020 – average age (42.2; 40.6(M); 43.9(M))

1990 – 2020: Romania’s permanent population aged by 7.7 years (22%)

The phenomenon of aging is more pronounced in the female population (8.3 years compared to 7.2 years in the male population)

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