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Demography

Population:

2,329,977 (July 2005 est.)

Age structure:

0-14 years: 15.9% (male 1,818,488/female 1,727,598)

15-64 years: 69.5% (male 7,726,903/female 7,801,441)

65 years and over: 14.6% (male 1,342,827/female 1,912,720) (2005 est.)

Median age:

total: 36.39 years

male: 35.04 years

female: 37.77 years (2005 est.)

Population growth rate:

-0.12% (2005 est.)

Birth rate:

10.7 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Death rate:

11.74 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Net migration rate:

-0.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Ethnic groups:

Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 6.6%, Roma 2.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, German 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, Turkish 0.2%, other 0.4% (2002 census)

Religions:

Eastern Orthodox (including all sub-denominations) 86.8%, Protestant (various denominations including Reformate and Pentecostal) 7.5%, Roman Catholic 4.7%, other (mostly Muslim) and unspecified 0.9%, none 0.1% (2002 census)

Languages:

Romanian (official), Hungarian, German