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Births and deaths in Galați County

How many children are born and how many people die each year in Galați County, the natural increase and the rates per 1,000 inhabitants, according to the data of the National Institute of Statistics.

Ranked 17 of 42, in 2025.

Live births

3,280 people

2025 · semi-final

−609 (−15.66%) vs 2024

Deaths

6,659 people

2025 · semi-final

−134 (−1.97%) vs 2024

The “Live births” series

Series high
9,053 people1990
Series low
3,280 people2025 · semi-final
Years published
36since 1990

Trends

Live births · solid lineDeaths · dashed line
Births and deaths in Galați County, All years The annual trend of Births and deaths in Galați County, from 1990 to 2025, in people. Live births: a trecut de la 9,053 la 3,280. Deaths: a trecut de la 5,570 la 6,659. The exact figures are in the table below. 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 maxim 9,053 3,280 6,659
Live births · solid lineDeaths · dashed line
Births and deaths in Galați County, Last 10 years The annual trend of Births and deaths in Galați County, from 2016 to 2025, in people. Live births: a trecut de la 5,407 la 3,280. Deaths: a trecut de la 6,999 la 6,659. The exact figures are in the table below. 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 maxim 5,756 3,280 6,659

What it means

Counties are not assigned by where the event happened but by where the person lived, and INS says so in the methodology of each matrix: births are assigned “by the domicile or usual residence of the mother (parent) or the legal representative”, deaths “by the last domicile or last usual residence of the deceased”. A county with a large maternity hospital therefore does not receive the births of women coming from neighbouring counties, and a death in a hospital in another county is counted at home.

The scope changed in 2012, as it did for the national figures: until 2011 it covered people domiciled in Romania, from 2012 also those with their usual residence here. The series carries no break declared by INS, but the two halves do not count exactly the same people.

The figures of a recent year RISE after publication. INS explains the mechanism: a revised figure for year T also covers the events that happened in year T but were registered late, in years T+1, T+2 and the first four months of T+3. The most recent year on the page is therefore the most incomplete, and the marking beside the figure says what stage it is at.

The 42 counties add up exactly to the national figure, in every one of the 36 published years, for births, for deaths and for the increase. Rates are neither added nor averaged: a rate has no total.

Natural increase

The difference between the number of live births and the number of deaths in the year. It is the figure INS publishes, not a subtraction of ours.

Natural increase

−3,379 people

2025 · semi-final

−475 (+16.36%) vs 2024
Natural increase · solid line
Natural increase The annual trend of Natural increase, from 1990 to 2025, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 3,483 la −3,379. The exact figures are in the table below. −4,000 −2,000 0 2,000 4,000 maxim 3,483 minim −3,380 −3,379
The last 12 years. The figures are in people.
Period Natural increase
2025 −3,379 semi-fin.
2024 −2,904
2023 −2,592
2022 −2,392
2021 −3,380
2020 −2,291
2019 −1,608
2018 −1,878
2017 −1,656
2016 −1,592
2015 −1,583
2014 −1,625

Per 1,000 inhabitants

The birth rate and the death rate, as published by INS: the number of live births and the number of deaths in the year, divided by the population on 1 July of the same year. These are the figures that make two counties of different sizes comparable — a rate is neither added nor averaged with others, so it has no "country total" that could be obtained from the 42.

Birth rate

5.3 per 1,000 inhabitants

2025 · provisional

−1.0 la mie vs 2024

Death rate

10.8 per 1,000 inhabitants

2025 · provisional

−0.1 la mie vs 2024
Birth rate · solid lineDeath rate · dashed line
Per 1,000 inhabitants The annual trend of Per 1,000 inhabitants, from 1990 to 2025, in per 1,000 inhabitants. Birth rate: a trecut de la 13.9 la 5.3. Death rate: a trecut de la 8.5 la 10.8. The exact figures are in the table below. 5.0 7.5 10.0 12.5 15.0 maxim 13.9 5.3 10.8

The denominator is the population by domicile on 1 July, not the resident population. INS says what goes into it: "the number of people with Romanian citizenship and a domicile on the territory of Romania", and "no account is taken of the usual residence, of the length and/or the reason for absence from the domicile". Anybody who has left the country with a declared domicile here therefore stays in the denominator: nationally, 21.6 million by domicile against 19.0 million residents. A larger denominator gives a smaller rate, so the rates here are below those that would be obtained by dividing by the population actually living in the county — all the more so in the counties many have left.

The rates for 1990 and 1991 are computed by INS on a different population source from those that follow: from 1992 onwards they were recomputed after the indicator "population by domicile on 1 July" was disseminated, while for the first two years the long historical population series were used.

The last 12 years. The figures are in per 1,000 inhabitants.
Period Birth rate Death rate
2025 5.3 prov. 10.8 prov.
2024 6.3 10.9
2023 6.5 10.9
2022 8.0 11.8
2021 9.0 14.3
2020 9.0 12.6
2019 9.1 11.7
2018 8.8 11.8
2017 9.0 11.6
2016 8.6 11.1
2015 8.4 10.9
2014 8.2 10.7

History

The last 24 years. The figures are in people.
Period Live births Deaths
2025 3,280 semi-fin. 6,659 semi-fin.
2024 3,889 6,793
2023 4,242 6,834
2022 5,079 7,471
2021 5,651 9,031
2020 5,685 7,976
2019 5,756 7,364
2018 5,561 7,439
2017 5,645 7,301
2016 5,407 6,999
2015 5,315 6,898
2014 5,202 6,827
2013 5,208 6,540
2012 4,634 6,725
2011 4,577 6,402
2010 5,473 6,911
2009 5,913 6,697
2008 5,817 6,638
2007 5,680 6,556
2006 5,863 6,426
2005 5,991 6,596
2004 6,044 6,466
2003 6,359 6,858
2002 5,912 6,879

Toate the counties

AlbaAradArgeșBacăuBihorBistrița-NăsăudBotoșaniBrăilaBrașovBuzăuCălărașiCaraș-SeverinClujConstanțaCovasnaDâmbovițaDoljGalațiGiurgiuGorjHarghitaHunedoaraIalomițaIașiIlfovMaramureșMehedințiBucharest MunicipalityMureșNeamțOltPrahovaSălajSatu MareSibiuSuceavaTeleormanTimișTulceaVâlceaVasluiVrancea

Source: National Institute of Statistics (INS), matrices POP201A, POP202A, POP206B, POP207A, POP214A. Period covered: 1990 – 2025. See the source. Figures marked “provisional” or “semi-final” may be revised by INS.

The data are annual and refer to the events registered at the civil registry offices in Romania, assigned to counties by the domicile or usual residence of the mother, respectively by the last domicile of the deceased. The figures are revised constantly: a recent year is filled in with the late registrations of the following three years, so it may rise. The rates per 1,000 inhabitants come from matrices POP202A and POP207A, with the population by domicile on 1 July as the denominator.