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The population of Vrancea County

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

Ranked 27 of 42, in 2026.

Resident population

330,157 people

2026 · provisional

−1,079 (−0.33%) vs 2025

The “Resident population” series

Series high
339,602 people2012
Series low
314,494 people2021
Years published
15since 2012

Trends

Resident population · solid line
The population of Vrancea County, All years The annual trend of The population of Vrancea County, from 2012 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 339,602 la 330,157. The exact figures are in the table below. 310,000 320,000 330,000 340,000 maxim 339,602 minim 314,494 330,157
Resident population · solid line
The population of Vrancea County, Last 10 years The annual trend of The population of Vrancea County, from 2017 to 2026, in people. Valoarea a trecut de la 328,057 la 330,157. The exact figures are in the table below. 310,000 315,000 320,000 325,000 330,000 335,000 maxim 334,066 minim 314,494 330,157

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

107,569 people

2026 · provisional

+213 (+0.20%) vs 2025

Rural

222,588 people

2026 · provisional

−1,292 (−0.58%) 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 122,929 la 107,569. Rural: a trecut de la 216,673 la 222,588. The exact figures are in the table below. 100,000 150,000 200,000 250,000 maxim 122,929 minim 107,356 107,569 222,588

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 107,569 prov. 222,588 prov.
2025 107,356 223,880
2024 108,668 223,805
2023 109,324 223,830
2022 109,669 224,397
2021 114,449 200,045
2020 116,457 201,321
2019 116,355 204,367
2018 117,475 206,962
2017 118,455 209,602
2016 119,911 211,026
2015 120,983 212,825

History

The last 15 years. The figures are in people.
Period Resident population
2026 330,157 prov.
2025 331,236
2024 332,473
2023 333,154
2022 334,066
2021 314,494
2020 317,778
2019 320,722
2018 324,437
2017 328,057
2016 330,937
2015 333,808
2014 335,738
2013 337,272
2012 339,602

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.