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The population of Caraș-Severin County

The resident population of Caraș-Severin County on 1 January, published by the National Institute of Statistics.

Ranked 38 of 42, in 2026.

Resident population

240,283 people

2026 · provisional

−1,949 (−0.80%) vs 2025

The “Resident population” series

Series high
294,575 people2012
Series low
240,283 people2026 · provisional
Years published
15since 2012

Trends

Resident population · solid line
The population of Caraș-Severin County, All years The annual trend of The population of Caraș-Severin County, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 294,575 la 240,283. The exact figures are in the table below. 240,000 260,000 280,000 300,000 maxim 294,575 240,283
Resident population · solid line
The population of Caraș-Severin County, Last 10 years The annual trend of The population of Caraș-Severin County, from 2017 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 279,123 la 240,283. The exact figures are in the table below. 240,000 250,000 260,000 270,000 280,000 maxim 279,123 240,283

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 same resident population, split by INS into the urban and the rural environment, on 1 January of each year. The two add up exactly to the figure above, in every published year.

Urban

123,326 people

2026 · provisional

+751 (+0.61%) vs 2025

Rural

116,957 people

2026 · provisional

−2,700 (−2.26%) vs 2025
Urban · solid lineRural · dashed line
By urban and rural The annual trend of By urban and rural, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Urban: a trecut de la 159,941 la 123,326. Rural: a trecut de la 134,634 la 116,957. The exact figures are in the table below. 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 maxim 159,941 minim 122,575 123,326 116,957

The boundary between urban and rural is administrative, not statistical: Legea 351/2001 puts the municipalities and the towns in the urban half and the villages in the rural one. When a commune is declared a town, a few thousand people move from one line to the other without anybody having moved house, and over short spans that explains a change more often than a real migration does. The total changes in neither case.

The last 12 years. The figures are in people.
Period Urban Rural
2026 123,326 prov. 116,957 prov.
2025 122,575 119,657
2024 126,561 117,145
2023 127,954 116,950
2022 129,310 117,009
2021 140,068 126,524
2020 145,085 124,725
2019 145,630 125,749
2018 147,390 127,651
2017 148,404 130,719
2016 151,746 130,721
2015 154,076 132,129

History

The last 15 years. The figures are in people.
Period Resident population
2026 240,283 prov.
2025 242,232
2024 243,706
2023 244,904
2022 246,319
2021 266,592
2020 269,810
2019 271,379
2018 275,041
2017 279,123
2016 282,467
2015 286,205
2014 289,011
2013 291,874
2012 294,575

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.