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In 1991, Moldova had 853 Orthodox churches and eleven Orthodox monasteries (four for monks and seven for nuns). In 1992 construction or restoration of 221 churches was underway, but clergy remained in short supply. [citation needed] As of 2004, Christian Orthodox constitute the vast majority of the population in all districts of Moldova.
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In addition, estimated 193,434 persons were not covered by the census. In Chișinău municipality as many as 41% of population were not covered. The total population in Moldova covered is 2,804,801, of which about 209,000 (7.5%) were non-residents (living mostly abroad for over 12 months). The number of habitual residents in Moldova was 2,595,771.
The country spans a total of 33,483 km 2 (12,928 sq mi) and has a population of approximately 2.42 million as of January 2024. [17] Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. [18] The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine.
One study used 2021 National Archive of Criminal Justice Data and 2016 U.S. Census Bureau data to show the impact of different gender ratios on men's violence against women in 3165 U.S. cities and counties. [86] The sex ratio ranged from 40% men to 60% men in the data. Rates of violence were lowest in places with a 51% male ratio.
Cartogram of the world's population in 2018; each square represents 500,000 people. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population.It includes sovereign states, inhabited dependent territories and, in some cases, constituent countries of sovereign states, with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
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According to a May 19, 2005 article carried by the Moldova Azi news agency, the expert group of the International Census Observation Mission to the Republic of Moldova described the Moldovan census as "generally conducted in a professional manner", but consider that "there were a few topics in the census that were potentially more problematic".