Population aged 65 and over in Romania
20.3% of people in Romania were aged 65 or over on 1 January 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1968.
The latest value carries the source flag “Estimated”.
Romania, 2025
20.3%e (Estimated)
Change from 2024
+0.3percentage points
European Union, 2025
22.0%ep (Source flag ep)
Median of European Union (27 countries), 2025
20.9%
Position in 2025
24th of 40
Population aged 65 and over in Romania over time
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% of total population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
Flags: b break in time series; be break in time series, estimated; e estimated; bep break in time series, estimated, provisional; ep estimated, provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from 20.0% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 17.0%, the figure has changed by +3.3 percentage points.
- Among the 40 countries with data for 2025, Romania has the 24th highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 22.0%.
More for Romania
All statistics for Romania
Population aged 65 and over
20.1%
2025 · World Bank
Old-age dependency ratio
31.6e (Estimated) per 100 working-age people
2025 · Eurostat
Median age of the population
44.1e (Estimated) years
2025 · Eurostat
Population on 1 January
19,043,151e (Estimated) people
2025 · Eurostat
Population by age and sex
19,043,151e (Estimated) people
2025 · Eurostat
Crude birth rate
7.0ep (Source flag ep) per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat