Demographic features of the population of Romania include population density , ethnicity , education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population. About Romanians are by far the most numerous group of speakers of an Eastern Romance language today.
It has been said that they constitute "an island of Latinity" [ 5 ] in Eastern Europe , surrounded on all sides either by Slavic peoples namely South Slavic and East Slavic peoples or by the Hungarians.
The Hungarian minority in Romania constitutes the country's largest minority, or as much as 6. The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on 24 February triggered a major refugee crisis in Europe. Romania's population has declined steadily in recent decades, from a peak of In , Romania's population was estimated to be Sources give varied estimates for Romania's historical population.
The principal minorities are Hungarians and Roma, although other smaller ethnic groups exist too. During the war that percentage was halved, largely by the loss of the border areas of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to the former Soviet Union , now Moldova and Ukraine and southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria. Two-thirds of the ethnic German population either left or were deported after World War II , a period that was followed by decades of relatively regular by communist standards migration.
During the interwar period in Romania , the total number of ethnic Germans amounted to as much as , according to some sources and estimates dating to , [ 13 ] [ 14 ] a figure which had subsequently fallen to circa 36, as of in contemporary Romania.
