By 2050, Romania’s population will decrease by 19.1% (that is more than four million people) against 2000, according to a study of the United Nations Population Division.
Whereas Romania’s population amounted to 16.3 million people in 1950, it increased to 22.438 million in 2000. The population of Romania is estimated to decrease to 21.4 million in 2015, to 20.5 million in 2025, eventually reaching 18.1 million in 2050.
Throughout this interval, the life span is estimated to go up from 69.8 years in 1995-2000 to 76.9 years in 2045-2050.
The study forecasts that the Earth population will increase nearly 50% by 2050, from 6.1 billion to 9.3 billion, the most important factors to lead to this growth being the fertility and mortality rate and migration.
Therefore, the population of developing countries will increase from 4.9 billion in 2000 to 8.2 billion in 2050.
Substantial growth will be registered in 48 underdeveloped countries, where the population will practically triple (from 658 million to 1.8 billion), regardless of the estimates about the decrease in fertility and severity of the HIV/AIDS crisis in these countries.