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The population of Ilfov County

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

Ranked 8 of 42, in 2026.

Resident population

619,461 people

2026 · provisional

+15,197 (+2.51%) vs 2025

The “Resident population” series

Series high
619,461 people2026 · provisional
Series low
392,279 people2012
Years published
15since 2012

Trends

Resident population · solid line
The population of Ilfov County, All years The annual trend of The population of Ilfov County, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 392,279 la 619,461. The exact figures are in the table below. 300,000 400,000 500,000 600,000 700,000 minim 392,279 619,461
Resident population · solid line
The population of Ilfov County, Last 10 years The annual trend of The population of Ilfov County, from 2017 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 460,486 la 619,461. The exact figures are in the table below. 450,000 500,000 550,000 600,000 650,000 minim 460,486 619,461

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

280,045 people

2026 · provisional

+8,353 (+3.07%) vs 2025

Rural

339,416 people

2026 · provisional

+6,844 (+2.06%) 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 168,758 la 280,045. Rural: a trecut de la 223,521 la 339,416. The exact figures are in the table below. 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 350,000 minim 168,758 280,045 339,416

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 280,045 prov. 339,416 prov.
2025 271,692 332,572
2024 263,653 319,986
2023 255,518 309,315
2022 246,328 299,079
2021 225,939 277,736
2020 219,899 266,970
2019 218,986 266,321
2018 212,491 260,931
2017 204,817 255,669
2016 196,805 247,436
2015 189,000 241,805

History

The last 15 years. The figures are in people.
Period Resident population
2026 619,461 prov.
2025 604,264
2024 583,639
2023 564,833
2022 545,407
2021 503,675
2020 486,869
2019 485,307
2018 473,422
2017 460,486
2016 444,241
2015 430,805
2014 417,850
2013 406,855
2012 392,279

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.