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See Demographics of Romania for a more detailed overview of the country's present-day demographics. The 1930 census was the only one to cover Greater Romania. Censuses in 1948, 1956, 1966, 1977, 1992, 2002, and 2011 covered Romania's present-day territory, [1] as does the current 2022 census.
About 9.3% of Romania's population is represented by minorities (the rest of 77.7% being Romanians), and 13% unknown or undisclosed according to 2021 census. [1] The principal minorities in Romania are Hungarians (Szeklers, Csangos, and Magyars; especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureș counties) and Romani people, with a declining German population (in Timiș, Sibiu, Brașov, or Suceava ...
Romania's population has declined steadily in recent decades, from a peak of 23.2 million in 1990 to 19.12 million in 2021. [9] Among the causes of population decline are high mortality, a low fertility rate since 1990, and tremendous levels of emigration. [9] In 1990, Romania's population was estimated to be 23.21 million inhabitants. [10]
History of ethnic groups in Romania (6 C, 4 P) Hungarians in Romania (11 C, 21 P) I. Italians in Romania (3 P) J. Jews and Judaism in Romania (16 C, 9 P) M.
Media in category "Maps of the history of Romania" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. Romania 1600-mod.png 367 × 285; 32 KB.
The beginnings of ethnic geography as an academic subdiscipline lie in the period following World War I, in the context of nationalism, and in the 1930s exploitation for the purposes of fascist and Nazi propaganda, so that it was only in the 1960s that ethnic geography began to thrive as a bona fide academic subdiscipline. [17]
It was widely believed in interwar Romania that Communism was the work of the Jews, and Romania's coming entry into the war against the Soviet Union – a war billed as a struggle to "annihilate" the forces of "Judeo-Bolshevism" – greatly served to increase the anti-Semitic paranoia of the Iron Guard regime. [8]
While an ancient Germanic presence on the territory of present-day Romania can be traced back to late antiquity and is represented by such migratory peoples as the Buri, Vandals, Goths (more specifically Visigoths), or the Gepids, the first waves of ethnic Germans on the territory of modern Romania came during the High Middle Ages, firstly to Transylvania (then part of the Kingdom of Hungary ...