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The population of Bucharest

The resident population of Bucharest on 1 January, published by the National Institute of Statistics.

Ranked 1 of 42, in 2026.

Resident population

1,713,832 people

2026 · provisional

+4,641 (+0.27%) vs 2025

The “Resident population” series

Series high
1,886,866 people2012
Series low
1,709,191 people2025
Years published
15since 2012

Trends

Resident population · solid line
The population of Bucharest, All years The annual trend of The population of Bucharest, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 1,886,866 la 1,713,832. The exact figures are in the table below. 1,700,000 1,750,000 1,800,000 1,850,000 1,900,000 maxim 1,886,866 minim 1,709,191 1,713,832
Resident population · solid line
The population of Bucharest, Last 10 years The annual trend of The population of Bucharest, from 2017 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 1,826,579 la 1,713,832. The exact figures are in the table below. 1,700,000 1,750,000 1,800,000 1,850,000 maxim 1,841,052 minim 1,709,191 1,713,832

What it means

The figure is the county's resident population on 1 January: the people whose usual residence is here, whatever their citizenship, not those whose identity document gives this address. The same measure as the national one, but published by county only from 2012.

The resident population is not counted but estimated — from administrative sources, from data received from other states' statistical institutes and from the census. That is why INS recomputes years already published, and why a year's figure may differ from what you saw last year.

The 42 counties add up exactly to the national total, and the site checks that at every import. The Municipality of Bucharest appears in the list at county level because that is how INS publishes it, although it is not a county.

By urban and rural

The Municipality of Bucharest is entirely urban: it has no rural localities, so INS publishes no rural figure for it — not a zero, but a row missing from the answer. The figure here is therefore the same as the resident population above, in every published year.

Urban

1,713,832 people

2026 · provisional

+4,641 (+0.27%) vs 2025
Urban · solid line
By urban and rural The annual trend of By urban and rural, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 1,886,866 la 1,713,832. The exact figures are in the table below. 1,700,000 1,750,000 1,800,000 1,850,000 1,900,000 maxim 1,886,866 minim 1,709,191 1,713,832
The last 12 years. The figures are in people.
Period Urban
2026 1,713,832 prov.
2025 1,709,191
2024 1,721,475
2023 1,724,966
2022 1,722,974
2021 1,828,781
2020 1,841,052
2019 1,832,802
2018 1,828,869
2017 1,826,579
2016 1,843,962
2015 1,853,638

History

The last 15 years. The figures are in people.
Period Resident population
2026 1,713,832 prov.
2025 1,709,191
2024 1,721,475
2023 1,724,966
2022 1,722,974
2021 1,828,781
2020 1,841,052
2019 1,832,802
2018 1,828,869
2017 1,826,579
2016 1,843,962
2015 1,853,638
2014 1,865,563
2013 1,875,389
2012 1,886,866

Toate the counties

AlbaAradArgeșBacăuBihorBistrița-NăsăudBotoșaniBrăilaBrașovBuzăuCălărașiCaraș-SeverinClujConstanțaCovasnaDâmbovițaDoljGalațiGiurgiuGorjHarghitaHunedoaraIalomițaIașiIlfovMaramureșMehedințiBucharest MunicipalityMureșNeamțOltPrahovaSălajSatu MareSibiuSuceavaTeleormanTimișTulceaVâlceaVasluiVrancea

Source: National Institute of Statistics (INS), matrix POP105A. Period covered: 2012 – 2026. See the source. Figures marked “provisional” or “semi-final” may be revised by INS.

The figure is the resident population on 1 January, the same measure as the national one. By county, however, INS publishes it only from 1 January 2012, although the national series begins in 2003. Some of the years in the series were recomputed by INS after their first publication; the value shown is already the corrected one, which is why it carries no marking.