Romania Population Records: Difference between revisions

In the year A.D. 200, Romania may have had 800,000 inhabitants. In 1200, there were a million inhabitants. Despite major losses from the Black Death in the 1400s, the population of what is now Romania reached two million in the first quarter of the 1500s. Between 1700 and 1800 the population increased from 2.5 million to 5.5 million people. By 1880 the population had reached 10 million. In 1977 there were 21.6 million, in 1997 there were 24.1 million, and in 2010 there were nearly 20.25 million people. The largest city is Bucharest with 1.9 million inhabitants in 2010. The next highest populations are in Braşov (276,914 in 2010), Constanța (301,221 in 2010), Cluj-Napoca (305,636 in 2010), Timişoara (311,428 in 2010), Iaşi (309,631 in 2010), Galați (290,593 in 2010), and Craiova (298,740 in 2010).