Of a total 19,043,767 people, 9,764,011, or 51.3%, are women, accounting for the bulk of Romania’s preliminary stable population.
More than half of men (51.8%) and more than half of women (53.7%) live in cities and towns.
At country level, the population density is 79.9 inhabitants per square kilometer.
The counties with the largest population are Ilfov (230.1 inhabitants/square km), Prahova (156.0 inhabitants/square km), Iasi (132.1 inhabitants/square km), Dambovita (123.8 inhabitants/square km), Galati (113.6 inhabitants/square km), Cluj (98.8 inhabitants/square km), Brasov (94.2 inhabitants/square km) and Constanta (89.2 inhabitants/square km).
The least-inhabited counties are Tulcea (23.7 inhabitants/square km), Caras-Severin (32.2 inhabitants/square km), Harghita (45.9 inhabitants/square km), Mehedinti (51.6 inhabitants/square km) Bistrita-Nasaud (51.9 inhabitants/square km), Arad (52.8 inhabitants/square km), Alba (52,4 inhabitants/square km) and Covasna (55.6 inhabitants/square km).
The share of homes where the census could not be carried out accounts for 2.8% of total homes, namely, around one million people who left abroad and could not be reached for the census.
The highest shares (in the total number of homes in a locality) were registered in big cities, namely, capital city Bucharest (6.0%), Timisoara (5.8%), Iasi (3.0%) and Constanta (2.9%).
The final results of the 2011 population and housing census will be made public in the second half of 2013.
The census was carried out between October 20 and October 31, 2011.