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The population of Gorj County

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

Ranked 31 of 42, in 2026.

Resident population

306,938 people

2026 · provisional

−764 (−0.25%) vs 2025

The “Resident population” series

Series high
340,030 people2012
Series low
306,938 people2026 · provisional
Years published
15since 2012

Trends

Resident population · solid line
The population of Gorj County, All years The annual trend of The population of Gorj County, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 340,030 la 306,938. The exact figures are in the table below. 300,000 310,000 320,000 330,000 340,000 350,000 maxim 340,030 306,938
Resident population · solid line
The population of Gorj County, Last 10 years The annual trend of The population of Gorj County, from 2017 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 323,634 la 306,938. The exact figures are in the table below. 305,000 310,000 315,000 320,000 325,000 maxim 323,634 306,938

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

133,017 people

2026 · provisional

+1,500 (+1.14%) vs 2025

Rural

173,921 people

2026 · provisional

−2,264 (−1.29%) 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 153,676 la 133,017. Rural: a trecut de la 186,354 la 173,921. The exact figures are in the table below. 120,000 140,000 160,000 180,000 200,000 maxim 153,676 minim 131,517 133,017 173,921

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 133,017 prov. 173,921 prov.
2025 131,517 176,185
2024 134,890 175,165
2023 136,077 175,224
2022 136,877 176,148
2021 137,143 170,829
2020 141,928 170,107
2019 142,745 172,763
2018 144,250 175,653
2017 145,115 178,519
2016 147,810 179,727
2015 149,613 181,815

History

The last 15 years. The figures are in people.
Period Resident population
2026 306,938 prov.
2025 307,702
2024 310,055
2023 311,301
2022 313,025
2021 307,972
2020 312,035
2019 315,508
2018 319,903
2017 323,634
2016 327,537
2015 331,428
2014 334,849
2013 336,995
2012 340,030

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.