Population in Moldova compared to Romania: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Moldova and Romania: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Moldova	Romania	Moldova	Romania
1960	2,058,020	18,406,905	-	-
1961	2,103,327	18,555,250	2.2%	0.81%
1962	2,147,227	18,676,550	2.09%	0.65%
1963	2,188,895	18,797,850	1.94%	0.65%
1964	2,228,000	18,919,126	1.79%	0.65%
1965	2,265,287	19,031,576	1.67%	0.59%
1966	2,301,871	19,215,450	1.61%	0.97%
1967	2,337,695	19,534,242	1.56%	1.66%
1968	2,373,073	19,799,831	1.51%	1.36%
1969	2,408,469	20,009,141	1.49%	1.06%
1970	2,437,590	20,250,398	1.21%	1.21%
1971	2,460,611	20,461,567	0.94%	1.04%
1972	2,484,742	20,657,957	0.98%	0.96%
1973	2,510,584	20,835,681	1.04%	0.86%
1974	2,538,164	21,029,429	1.1%	0.93%
1975	2,566,998	21,293,583	1.14%	1.26%
1976	2,596,491	21,551,634	1.15%	1.21%
1977	2,626,298	21,756,096	1.15%	0.95%
1978	2,656,211	21,951,464	1.14%	0.9%
1979	2,683,035	22,090,488	1.01%	0.63%
1980	2,708,675	22,207,282	0.96%	0.53%
1981	2,735,987	22,353,070	1.01%	0.66%
1982	2,763,101	22,475,741	0.99%	0.55%
1983	2,791,207	22,560,478	1.02%	0.38%
1984	2,820,518	22,640,547	1.05%	0.35%
1985	2,850,787	22,732,999	1.07%	0.41%
1986	2,883,057	22,836,841	1.13%	0.46%
1987	2,916,306	22,949,430	1.15%	0.49%
1988	2,948,891	23,057,662	1.12%	0.47%
1989	2,970,039	23,161,458	0.72%	0.45%
1990	2,977,912	23,201,835	0.27%	0.17%
1991	2,981,566	23,001,155	0.12%	-0.86%
1992	2,980,965	22,794,284	-0.02%	-0.9%
1993	2,975,966	22,763,280	-0.17%	-0.14%
1994	2,966,745	22,730,211	-0.31%	-0.15%
1995	2,953,200	22,684,270	-0.46%	-0.2%
1996	2,947,293	22,619,004	-0.2%	-0.29%
1997	2,936,413	22,553,978	-0.37%	-0.29%
1998	2,935,227	22,507,344	-0.04%	-0.21%
1999	2,930,622	22,472,040	-0.16%	-0.16%
2000	2,924,668	22,442,971	-0.2%	-0.13%
2001	2,918,135	22,131,970	-0.22%	-1.39%
2002	2,911,385	21,730,496	-0.23%	-1.81%
2003	2,903,198	21,574,326	-0.28%	-0.72%
2004	2,896,023	21,451,748	-0.25%	-0.57%
2005	2,888,985	21,319,685	-0.24%	-0.62%
2006	2,880,967	21,193,760	-0.28%	-0.59%
2007	2,874,299	20,882,982	-0.23%	-1.47%
2008	2,868,833	20,537,875	-0.19%	-1.65%
2009	2,865,213	20,367,487	-0.13%	-0.83%
2010	2,862,354	20,246,871	-0.1%	-0.59%
2011	2,860,699	20,147,528	-0.06%	-0.49%
2012	2,860,324	20,058,035	-0.01%	-0.44%
2013	2,859,558	19,983,693	-0.03%	-0.37%
2014	2,857,815	19,908,979	-0.06%	-0.37%
2015	2,835,978	19,815,616	-0.76%	-0.47%
2016	2,803,186	19,702,267	-1.16%	-0.57%
2017	2,755,189	19,588,715	-1.71%	-0.58%
2018	2,707,203	19,473,970	-1.74%	-0.59%
2019	2,664,224	19,371,648	-1.59%	-0.53%
2020	2,635,130	19,265,250	-1.09%	-0.55%
2021	2,595,809	19,122,059	-1.49%	-0.74%
2022	2,528,654	19,048,502	-2.59%	-0.38%
2023	2,457,783	19,061,062	-2.8%	0.07%
2024	2,402,306	19,051,804	-2.26%	-0.05%
2025	2,371,543	18,945,157	-1.28%	-0.56%
2026	2,343,963	18,836,893	-1.16%	-0.57%
2027	2,321,110	18,727,645	-0.97%	-0.58%
2028	2,298,239	18,617,757	-0.99%	-0.59%
2029	2,275,251	18,506,702	-1%	-0.6%
2030	2,252,131	18,394,947	-1.02%	-0.6%
2031	2,229,191	18,282,991	-1.02%	-0.61%
2032	2,206,559	18,170,681	-1.02%	-0.61%
2033	2,183,929	18,057,661	-1.03%	-0.62%
2034	2,161,282	17,943,814	-1.04%	-0.63%
2035	2,138,754	17,828,772	-1.04%	-0.64%
2036	2,116,659	17,712,177	-1.03%	-0.65%
2037	2,095,127	17,595,189	-1.02%	-0.66%
2038	2,074,054	17,477,597	-1.01%	-0.67%
2039	2,053,352	17,360,012	-1%	-0.67%
2040	2,033,323	17,242,939	-0.98%	-0.67%
2041	2,014,222	17,124,773	-0.94%	-0.69%
2042	1,995,750	17,006,515	-0.92%	-0.69%
2043	1,977,688	16,888,882	-0.9%	-0.69%
2044	1,960,241	16,770,593	-0.88%	-0.7%
2045	1,943,187	16,652,406	-0.87%	-0.7%
2046	1,926,432	16,534,847	-0.86%	-0.71%
2047	1,910,142	16,416,456	-0.85%	-0.72%
2048	1,894,069	16,297,099	-0.84%	-0.73%
2049	1,877,822	16,177,534	-0.86%	-0.73%
2050	1,861,554	16,058,209	-0.87%	-0.74%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Moldova decreased by 77,781 people (a 2.7% decline), while Romania lost 1,491,493 people (a 7.04% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Moldova lost -459,223 (a 16.4% decline), while Romania's population decreased by -865,374 (a 4.39% decline).

Moldova was ranked 134th most populous country in 2006 and is 144th in 2026. Romania was ranked 51st in 2006 and ranked 70th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Moldova's population will shrink by 20.6% to 1,861,554 people with a rank change from 144th to 150th. The population of Romania will decrease by 14.8% to 16,058,209 people and rank change from 70th to 81st.