Roumanie

Interesting Facts About Roumanie

• Romania is the sixth-most populous member state of the European Union, with 19 million inhabitants.
• According to the 2021 census, Romanians made up 89.33% of the population, with Hungarians at 6.05% and Roma at 3.44%.
• Hungarians constitute a majority in the counties of Harghita and Covasna.
• In 1930, there were 745,421 Germans living in Romania, but only about 36,000 remained by the time of the source's writing.
• Romania has one of the oldest populations in the world, with approximately 16.8% of the total population aged 65 years and over.
• The total fertility rate in 2018 was 1.36 children born per woman, one of the lowest in the world.
• An estimated 12 million Romanians and individuals with Romanian ancestry live abroad.
• Romanian is a Romance language that shares features with both Eastern Romance languages (Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian) and Western Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan).

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