Demographics of Romania
Județ Total CBR ( ‰ ) Urban ( ‰ ) Rural ( ‰ )
Romania 8.6 8.3 8.9
Alba County 8.0 7.5 8.8
Arad County 8.5 8.1 8.9
Argeș County 8.3 8.2 8.3
Bacău County 8.0 7.5 8.5
Bihor County 9.2 8.6 9.8
Bistriţa-Năsăud County 9.7 9.8 9.7
Botoşani County 8.3 8.1 8.4
Brașov County 9.6 8.6 12.6
Brăila County 6.9 6.2 8.4
Bucharest city 8.8 8.8 -
Buzău County 7.6 7.7 7.6
Caraș-Severin County 6.9 6.7 7.3
Călărași County 8.7 8.5 8.9
Cluj County 9.5 9.2 9.9
Constanța County 9.3 8.8 10.4
Covasna County 9.6 8.1 11.2
Dâmbovița County 8.3 7.7 8.6
Dolj County 7.9 7.9 7.9
Galați County 7.4 6.7 8.3
Birth rates by counties
Romania has 41 counties and one city with a special status , namely Bucharest . Ilfov county has the highest crude birth rate ( 12.0‰ ) , while Vâlcea County has the lowest crude birth rate ( 6.6‰ ) . Birth rates are generally higher in rural areas compared to urban areas .
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Romania, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. About 88.9% of the people of Romania are ethnic Romanians, whose language, Romanian, is a Balkan Romance language, descended from Latin with some German, French, English, Greek, Slavic, and Hungarian borrowings. Romanians are by far the most numerous group of speakers of a Balkan Romance language today. It has been said that they constitute an island of Latinity in Eastern Europe, surrounded on all sides either by Slavic peoples or by the Hungarians. The Hungarian minority in Romania constitutes the country's largest minority, 6.1 per cent of the population.