Population in Romania compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Romania and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Romania	United Kingdom	Romania	United Kingdom
1960	18,406,905	52,400,000	-	-
1961	18,555,250	52,800,000	0.81%	0.76%
1962	18,676,550	53,250,000	0.65%	0.85%
1963	18,797,850	53,650,000	0.65%	0.75%
1964	18,919,126	54,000,000	0.65%	0.65%
1965	19,031,576	54,348,050	0.59%	0.64%
1966	19,215,450	54,648,500	0.97%	0.55%
1967	19,534,242	54,943,600	1.66%	0.54%
1968	19,799,831	55,211,700	1.36%	0.49%
1969	20,009,141	55,441,750	1.06%	0.42%
1970	20,250,398	55,663,250	1.21%	0.4%
1971	20,461,567	55,896,223	1.04%	0.42%
1972	20,657,957	56,086,065	0.96%	0.34%
1973	20,835,681	56,194,527	0.86%	0.19%
1974	21,029,429	56,229,974	0.93%	0.06%
1975	21,293,583	56,225,800	1.26%	-0.007%
1976	21,551,634	56,211,968	1.21%	-0.02%
1977	21,756,096	56,193,492	0.95%	-0.03%
1978	21,951,464	56,196,504	0.9%	0.005%
1979	22,090,488	56,246,951	0.63%	0.09%
1980	22,207,282	56,314,216	0.53%	0.12%
1981	22,353,070	56,333,829	0.66%	0.03%
1982	22,475,741	56,313,641	0.55%	-0.04%
1983	22,560,478	56,332,848	0.38%	0.03%
1984	22,640,547	56,422,072	0.35%	0.16%
1985	22,732,999	56,550,268	0.41%	0.23%
1986	22,836,841	56,681,396	0.46%	0.23%
1987	22,949,430	56,802,050	0.49%	0.21%
1988	23,057,662	56,928,327	0.47%	0.22%
1989	23,161,458	57,076,711	0.45%	0.26%
1990	23,201,835	57,247,586	0.17%	0.3%
1991	23,001,155	57,424,897	-0.86%	0.31%
1992	22,794,284	57,580,402	-0.9%	0.27%
1993	22,763,280	57,718,614	-0.14%	0.24%
1994	22,730,211	57,865,745	-0.15%	0.25%
1995	22,684,270	58,019,030	-0.2%	0.26%
1996	22,619,004	58,166,950	-0.29%	0.25%
1997	22,553,978	58,316,954	-0.29%	0.26%
1998	22,507,344	58,487,141	-0.21%	0.29%
1999	22,472,040	58,682,466	-0.16%	0.33%
2000	22,442,971	58,892,514	-0.13%	0.36%
2001	22,131,970	59,119,673	-1.39%	0.39%
2002	21,730,496	59,370,479	-1.81%	0.42%
2003	21,574,326	59,647,577	-0.72%	0.47%
2004	21,451,748	59,987,905	-0.57%	0.57%
2005	21,319,685	60,401,206	-0.62%	0.69%
2006	21,193,760	60,846,820	-0.59%	0.74%
2007	20,882,982	61,322,463	-1.47%	0.78%
2008	20,537,875	61,806,995	-1.65%	0.79%
2009	20,367,487	62,276,270	-0.83%	0.76%
2010	20,246,871	62,766,365	-0.59%	0.79%
2011	20,147,528	63,258,810	-0.49%	0.78%
2012	20,058,035	63,711,000	-0.44%	0.71%
2013	19,983,693	64,139,000	-0.37%	0.67%
2014	19,908,979	64,620,000	-0.37%	0.75%
2015	19,815,616	65,088,000	-0.47%	0.72%
2016	19,702,267	65,607,000	-0.57%	0.8%
2017	19,588,715	65,966,000	-0.58%	0.55%
2018	19,473,970	66,289,000	-0.59%	0.49%
2019	19,371,648	66,631,000	-0.53%	0.52%
2020	19,265,250	66,744,000	-0.55%	0.17%
2021	19,122,059	66,984,000	-0.74%	0.36%
2022	19,048,502	67,604,000	-0.38%	0.93%
2023	19,059,479	68,492,000	0.06%	1.31%
2024	19,069,340	69,226,000	0.05%	1.07%
2025	18,962,595	69,639,673	-0.56%	0.6%
2026	18,854,232	70,020,350	-0.57%	0.55%
2027	18,744,883	70,382,853	-0.58%	0.52%
2028	18,634,894	70,732,699	-0.59%	0.5%
2029	18,523,736	71,061,482	-0.6%	0.46%
2030	18,411,878	71,377,535	-0.6%	0.44%
2031	18,299,820	71,678,351	-0.61%	0.42%
2032	18,187,406	71,959,934	-0.61%	0.39%
2033	18,074,282	72,234,509	-0.62%	0.38%
2034	17,960,330	72,497,650	-0.63%	0.36%
2035	17,845,182	72,749,096	-0.64%	0.35%
2036	17,728,480	72,990,847	-0.65%	0.33%
2037	17,611,384	73,218,850	-0.66%	0.31%
2038	17,493,684	73,441,349	-0.67%	0.3%
2039	17,375,991	73,658,392	-0.67%	0.3%
2040	17,258,810	73,868,334	-0.67%	0.29%
2041	17,140,535	74,074,316	-0.69%	0.28%
2042	17,022,168	74,275,779	-0.69%	0.27%
2043	16,904,427	74,475,035	-0.69%	0.27%
2044	16,786,029	74,667,284	-0.7%	0.26%
2045	16,667,734	74,848,605	-0.7%	0.24%
2046	16,550,066	75,020,949	-0.71%	0.23%
2047	16,431,566	75,184,478	-0.72%	0.22%
2048	16,312,099	75,337,543	-0.73%	0.2%
2049	16,192,424	75,476,141	-0.73%	0.18%
2050	16,072,989	75,600,588	-0.74%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Romania decreased by 1,504,069 people (a 7.05% decline), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Romania lost -853,021 (a 4.3% decline), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Romania was ranked 50th most populous country in 2005 and is 69th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Romania's population will shrink by 15.2% to 16,072,989 people with a rank change from 69th to 81st. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.