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The population of Neamț County

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

Ranked 18 of 42, in 2026.

Resident population

444,666 people

2026 · provisional

−1,084 (−0.24%) vs 2025

The “Resident population” series

Series high
468,429 people2012
Series low
433,852 people2021
Years published
15since 2012

Trends

Resident population · solid line
The population of Neamț County, All years The annual trend of The population of Neamț County, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 468,429 la 444,666. The exact figures are in the table below. 430,000 440,000 450,000 460,000 470,000 maxim 468,429 minim 433,852 444,666
Resident population · solid line
The population of Neamț County, Last 10 years The annual trend of The population of Neamț County, from 2017 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 451,544 la 444,666. The exact figures are in the table below. 430,000 435,000 440,000 445,000 450,000 455,000 maxim 452,057 minim 433,852 444,666

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

155,398 people

2026 · provisional

−50 (−0.03%) vs 2025

Rural

289,268 people

2026 · provisional

−1,034 (−0.36%) 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 168,708 la 155,398. Rural: a trecut de la 299,721 la 289,268. The exact figures are in the table below. 150,000 200,000 250,000 300,000 maxim 168,708 minim 153,424 155,398 289,268

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 155,398 prov. 289,268 prov.
2025 155,448 290,302
2024 157,208 290,572
2023 158,540 290,805
2022 160,347 291,710
2021 153,424 280,428
2020 156,263 282,916
2019 156,268 285,864
2018 158,017 289,215
2017 159,703 291,841
2016 161,775 293,868
2015 163,753 295,704

History

The last 15 years. The figures are in people.
Period Resident population
2026 444,666 prov.
2025 445,750
2024 447,780
2023 449,345
2022 452,057
2021 433,852
2020 439,179
2019 442,132
2018 447,232
2017 451,544
2016 455,643
2015 459,457
2014 462,109
2013 464,758
2012 468,429

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.