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Population
2024: Population decline of 14% in 10 years to 2.4 million
The National Bureau of Statistics of Moldova at the end of January 2025 published preliminary results of the 2024 census, according to which the number of permanent residents of the country decreased by 13.9% over the decade, reaching an indicator of 2.401 million people, which is 389 thousand people less than in 2014.
A large-scale statistical study was carried out from April 8 to July 7, 2024, followed by an additional stage until August 11, 2024. During the census, about 2.4 million citizens were interviewed and more than 1.6 million residential and non-residential premises were examined, including secondary and empty houses.
The census results show a significant increase in the urbanization of the population - the share of urban residents increased from 38.5% to 46.4%.[1]
2023: 2.5 million people
As of 2023, about 2.5 million people live in Moldova. Over the previous ten years, the population has decreased by 12%, mainly due to migration to the west and to Russia.
41.9% of Moldovan citizens aged 14-34 are outside the country.
2018: Population decline from 1989 by 20% to 3.5 million
Birth rate
2023
The average age of a woman at the birth of her first child is 24.7 years
Birth rate decline by 11% to 24 thousand children
In Moldova, in 2023, only 24 thousand children were born, which is 11% less than in 2022.
Migration
2024: Number of Ukrainian refugees - less than 200,000
2021: Net outflow over 4 years
Male-to-female ratio
Children out of wedlock
Marriages and divorces
2017: Divorce rate - 48.2%
Age
2024
The demographic structure indicates a steady trend of aging of the population: the proportion of citizens over 65 in 2024 reached 18.2%. At the same time, there is a significant decrease in the share of youth aged 15-24 years - from 14.7% to 10.6%. Children under 14 make up 19.2% of the population, slightly higher than the 2014 figure of 17.9%. The economically active population aged 25-64 years decreased from 56.1% to 52%, amounting to 1.24 million people.
2023
As of 2023, about 26% of the population are young people aged 14 to 34 years.
Dominant haplogroup
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National composition
The population of the Republic of Moldova is a collection of ethnic groups living in the territory of the Republic of Moldova.
Moldavians, Rusyns, Gagauz - indigenous peoples.
Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Greeks are old-timers.
Moldavians
Moldavians are a people who appeared as a result of the long-term joint residence of East Romanesque, East Slavic and Tur ethnic groups in a single territory of historical Moldova, after the Tatar-Mongol invasion. By 2024, the majority of the population - 77.2% of respondents - identify as Moldovans.
Russinians
Rusyns (Rusnaks) are the indigenous inhabitants of Moldova, participants and organizers, together with the oxen, of the medieval Moldavian state. Descendants of the streets, Tiverians, Bolokhovites and white Croats, as well as other groups of the old Russian state. In Soviet times, they were strongly Ukrainized. And in the post-Soviet period they underwent Romanization. Their contribution to the construction of the Moldavian state for 2022 is denied by the Moldovan authorities. However, their isolation, dialect and ethnic self-understanding were preserved.
Gagauz
Moldavian Turks - a combination of Turkic-speaking ethnic groups who inhabited Budzhak in the Middle Ages. Polovtsy, Crimean and Nogai Tatars. Ancestors of modern Gagauz and southern Moldavian subethnic groups. The most famous representative Dmitry Cantemir (Khan Temur) is an associate of Peter I and one of the rulers of Moldova.
By 2024, 4.2% of Moldovan residents consider themselves to be Gagauz.
Russians
Ukrainians
By ethnic composition, 4.9% of Moldovan residents identify as Ukrainians.
Jews
Xenophobia
Language
46% of Moldovan residents by 2024 consider Moldavian to be their native language, 33.3% - Romanian, 15.3% - Russian, 2.3% - Gagauz and 2% - Ukrainian. This is evidenced by the data of the National Bureau of Statistics of Moldova, which were released in January 2025.
Share of citizens abroad
Share of the population living in the capital
2024
Every third resident of Moldova lives in Chisinau by 2024, which indicates the ongoing process of centralization of the population. This is evidenced by the data of the National Bureau of Statistics of Moldova, which were released in January 2025.
2018
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Poverty
2020: 31.7% of Moldovans undernourished
Mortality
2023: Life expectancy - 69.5 years
2018
Number of drug deaths per million residents
Number of road deaths per 100,000 vehicles
The annual number of suicides per 100 thousand inhabitants
2016: Number of deaths from opioid use disorders
2012: Male-female suicide ratio
Notes
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