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The population of Mehedinți County

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

Ranked 39 of 42, in 2026.

Resident population

226,429 people

2026 · provisional

−2,791 (−1.22%) vs 2025

The “Resident population” series

Series high
264,338 people2012
Series low
226,429 people2026 · provisional
Years published
15since 2012

Trends

Resident population · solid line
The population of Mehedinți County, All years The annual trend of The population of Mehedinți County, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 264,338 la 226,429. The exact figures are in the table below. 220,000 230,000 240,000 250,000 260,000 270,000 maxim 264,338 226,429
Resident population · solid line
The population of Mehedinți County, Last 10 years The annual trend of The population of Mehedinți County, from 2017 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 249,336 la 226,429. The exact figures are in the table below. 220,000 230,000 240,000 250,000 maxim 249,336 226,429

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

101,218 people

2026 · provisional

+3,542 (+3.63%) vs 2025

Rural

125,211 people

2026 · provisional

−6,333 (−4.81%) 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 123,371 la 101,218. Rural: a trecut de la 140,967 la 125,211. The exact figures are in the table below. 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 maxim 123,371 minim 97,676 101,218 125,211

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 101,218 prov. 125,211 prov.
2025 97,676 131,544
2024 103,786 126,297
2023 105,204 126,194
2022 106,118 127,518
2021 103,462 132,900
2020 110,201 128,629
2019 111,660 129,493
2018 112,921 132,039
2017 112,759 136,577
2016 116,417 136,183
2015 118,461 137,550

History

The last 15 years. The figures are in people.
Period Resident population
2026 226,429 prov.
2025 229,220
2024 230,083
2023 231,398
2022 233,636
2021 236,362
2020 238,830
2019 241,153
2018 244,960
2017 249,336
2016 252,600
2015 256,011
2014 259,026
2013 261,670
2012 264,338

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.