For the first time in history, immigrants who came to work in Romania are the main cause of the country’s population growth, the National Institute of Statistics said Wednesday.
The number of immigrants outnumbered Romanians who left the country by about 85,000.
During 2022, men are in the majority among emigrants (50.2%). And among immigrants, men were in the majority (53.3%).
On 1 January 2023 the resident population was 19.05 million, up by 9,107 persons compared to 1 January 2022.
From the graph above, it can be seen that the age at which most people emigrate to Romania (as of 2022) is 30-34, followed by the 20-24 and 25-29 age groups.
On 1 January 2023, the urban resident population was around 10 million, down 0.3% from 1 January 2022. The female population on 1 January 2023 was 9.8 million, down 0.01% from the same date the previous year.
The process of demographic ageing has deepened, with the share of the elderly population (aged 65 and over) increasing by 0.3 percentage points compared to 1 January 2022 (from 19.4% in 2022 to 19.7% on 1 January 2023). The share of the population aged 0-14 in the total population stagnated at 16.2%. The demographic ageing index increased from 120.0 (on 1 January 2022) to 122.0 elderly persons per 100 young persons (on 1 January 2023).The demographic dependency ratio increased from 55.5 (on 1 January 2022) to 56.1 young and old persons per 100 adults (on 1 January 2023).
For Statistics, emigrants are persons who emigrate abroad for a period of at least 12 months; Immigrants are those who come to Romania for at least one year. During the conflict in Ukraine, on the basis of additional clarifications developed by Eurostat, Ukrainian citizens who have obtained a form of temporary international protection are also taken into account in the measurement of immigration.
Thus, the number of immigrants includes :
* foreign citizens or citizens without citizenship who have had their usual residence in another country and have established their usual residence in Romania for at least 12 months;
* Romanian citizens who have had their habitual residence abroad for at least 12 months and have returned to the country for at least 12 months.
* persons with Ukrainian citizenship benefiting from temporary protection on 1 January t, according to the Guidelines published by Eurostat
It seems a sort of historic inflection point, Romania is slowly becoming a target for immigration.
It’s going to be an interesting process going forward, for sure Romanians aren’t used to this 🙂
Congratulations to Romania! Dramatic turnaround from 20 years ago!
Ideally, Romania will become a developed first-world nation:))
If you introduce people into a territory, there will be more people there. Be intelligent.
This is actually Brussels plan. They want to make Central-Eastern European countries as rich as possible so that the upcoming migrant crisis that may result because of the climate will be absorbed by the countries in Central-Eastern EU, instead of the western ones as it happened until now
More countries falling for the temporary workers trap that Germany fell for 50 years ago
This is good for Romania, only issue I see is that most of these migrants will eventually move on to the stronger economies of the EU. So some years from now the number of migrants who will have settled in Romania will be low.
Yeah well immigrants coming here actually are coming for work. Workplace is key for integration. The government does not give you much, it is quite a feat to survive on basic assistance.
We don’t mindlessly take in refugees that are a burden. We even changed conditions for Ukranian refugees so they are incentivized to work rather than live on government assistance which was significantly higher than for locals.
I don’t think we will see the same social frictions that exist in the west in this regard. Also working here on a permit is no guarantee of citizenship. In the past years citizenships have become notoriously hard to get. You not only need to speak the languge properly but you need to be familiar with the history and culture and also be of a good character.
Another thing is some immigrants actually only arrive on previously agreed on contracts and leave after doing their jobs, such as in construction.
Most immigrants from the middle east and Turkey that came in the 90s and 00s are pretty much fully integrated now. I know a bunch of such families. Their kids are just like the rest of us. Same weird inferiority complex and anti government trash talk 😁
Well we’ve seen in other places how this will turn out.
Well, hope it’s on of very few years where this is the case.
Honestly, I hope we don’t become an immigration country – I would like Romania to be vastly … Romanian.
The only thing that gives me hope is that getting citizenship is not that easy, and that many might move on to richer countries.
Either way, we should make getting citizenship close to impossible – I don’t see why someone should become the citizen of a country simply for getting a job there.
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For the first time in history, immigrants who came to work in Romania are the main cause of the country’s population growth, the National Institute of Statistics said Wednesday.
The number of immigrants outnumbered Romanians who left the country by about 85,000.
During 2022, men are in the majority among emigrants (50.2%). And among immigrants, men were in the majority (53.3%).
On 1 January 2023 the resident population was 19.05 million, up by 9,107 persons compared to 1 January 2022.
From the graph above, it can be seen that the age at which most people emigrate to Romania (as of 2022) is 30-34, followed by the 20-24 and 25-29 age groups.
On 1 January 2023, the urban resident population was around 10 million, down 0.3% from 1 January 2022. The female population on 1 January 2023 was 9.8 million, down 0.01% from the same date the previous year.
The process of demographic ageing has deepened, with the share of the elderly population (aged 65 and over) increasing by 0.3 percentage points compared to 1 January 2022 (from 19.4% in 2022 to 19.7% on 1 January 2023). The share of the population aged 0-14 in the total population stagnated at 16.2%. The demographic ageing index increased from 120.0 (on 1 January 2022) to 122.0 elderly persons per 100 young persons (on 1 January 2023).The demographic dependency ratio increased from 55.5 (on 1 January 2022) to 56.1 young and old persons per 100 adults (on 1 January 2023).
For Statistics, emigrants are persons who emigrate abroad for a period of at least 12 months; Immigrants are those who come to Romania for at least one year. During the conflict in Ukraine, on the basis of additional clarifications developed by Eurostat, Ukrainian citizens who have obtained a form of temporary international protection are also taken into account in the measurement of immigration.
Thus, the number of immigrants includes :
* foreign citizens or citizens without citizenship who have had their usual residence in another country and have established their usual residence in Romania for at least 12 months;
* Romanian citizens who have had their habitual residence abroad for at least 12 months and have returned to the country for at least 12 months.
* persons with Ukrainian citizenship benefiting from temporary protection on 1 January t, according to the Guidelines published by Eurostat
It seems a sort of historic inflection point, Romania is slowly becoming a target for immigration.
It’s going to be an interesting process going forward, for sure Romanians aren’t used to this 🙂
Congratulations to Romania! Dramatic turnaround from 20 years ago!
Ideally, Romania will become a developed first-world nation:))
If you introduce people into a territory, there will be more people there. Be intelligent.
This is actually Brussels plan. They want to make Central-Eastern European countries as rich as possible so that the upcoming migrant crisis that may result because of the climate will be absorbed by the countries in Central-Eastern EU, instead of the western ones as it happened until now
More countries falling for the temporary workers trap that Germany fell for 50 years ago
This is good for Romania, only issue I see is that most of these migrants will eventually move on to the stronger economies of the EU. So some years from now the number of migrants who will have settled in Romania will be low.
Yeah well immigrants coming here actually are coming for work. Workplace is key for integration. The government does not give you much, it is quite a feat to survive on basic assistance.
We don’t mindlessly take in refugees that are a burden. We even changed conditions for Ukranian refugees so they are incentivized to work rather than live on government assistance which was significantly higher than for locals.
I don’t think we will see the same social frictions that exist in the west in this regard. Also working here on a permit is no guarantee of citizenship. In the past years citizenships have become notoriously hard to get. You not only need to speak the languge properly but you need to be familiar with the history and culture and also be of a good character.
Another thing is some immigrants actually only arrive on previously agreed on contracts and leave after doing their jobs, such as in construction.
Most immigrants from the middle east and Turkey that came in the 90s and 00s are pretty much fully integrated now. I know a bunch of such families. Their kids are just like the rest of us. Same weird inferiority complex and anti government trash talk 😁
Well we’ve seen in other places how this will turn out.
Well, hope it’s on of very few years where this is the case.
Honestly, I hope we don’t become an immigration country – I would like Romania to be vastly … Romanian.
The only thing that gives me hope is that getting citizenship is not that easy, and that many might move on to richer countries.
Either way, we should make getting citizenship close to impossible – I don’t see why someone should become the citizen of a country simply for getting a job there.