The inactive population includes 10.868 million people, of whom pensioners and social welfare beneficiaries represent two fifths (40%), and pupils and students account for almost a third (32%).
The data collected shows Romania’s population amounts to 19.05 million people, of which 51.5% women and 52.2% of them in urban areas.
The demographic aging index depreciated by almost 20 percentage points, increasing to 121.2 elderly people per 100 young people (Census 2021) compared to 101.8 (Census 2011). Although the number of young people (under 15 years old) decreased by 115,700 people, their share in the total population rose slightly to 16.1 pct (compared to 15.9 pct in Census 2011), while the share of the population aged 65 and over in total population registered an increase of almost half a million people, respectively by 3.5 percentage points (from 16.1 pct at Census 2011 to 19.6 pct at Census 2021).
The demographic dependency ratio increased within a decade from 47 (Census 2011) to 55.5 young and elderly people per 100 adults (at Census 2021).
Compared to the resident population recorded in the previous census (Census 2011), Romania lost 1.1 million inhabitants.