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Moldova population

UN name: Republic of Moldova

Moldova population now

2,954,165

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 2.9–3.0 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 3,067,070

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 2.96125 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 2.9–3.0 million
Median age: 40.1
Aged 65+: 17.4%

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male female projection · one cell = 1,000 people

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Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

MDA · 1950–2100 · in brief

Moldova in numbers

3,067,070 people lived in Moldova in mid-2023: 0.04% of the world's people, and the 137th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 1.2 times its 1950 population of 2.5 million.

Its population peaked in 1991 at 4.5 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 1.5 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 400 thousand to 4.9 million.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 2018, and do so in every projected year to 2100. Deaths also outnumbered births in 2000–2003.

The median age was 23.7 in 1950 and 38.8 in 2023; the projection has 49.3 in 2100. 15.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 28.4% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) peaked in 1991 at 2.8 million; in 2023 it was 2.0 million.

Among countries it ranks 137th in 2023, 147th in 2050 and 150th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Puerto Rico in 2061 and Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2069. It is overtaken by Qatar in 2024, Namibia in 2025 and the Gambia in 2027.

Population, mid-2023: 3,067,070
Rank by population, 2023: 137 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.04%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.89% · +27,086 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 93
Land area, 2023: 32,930 km²
Births, 2023: 32,986
Deaths, 2023: 41,730
Net migration, 2023: −18,570
Children per woman, 2023: 1.73
Median age, 2023: 38.8 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 71.2 years
In a city, 2025: 23 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 2,528,360
Projected, mid-2050: 2,351,809
Projected, mid-2100: 1,487,721

MDA · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Moldova, 1950–2100

Moldova: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	2,506,778		79,371	37,492	3.49	54.0
1951	estimate	2,549,942		81,735	37,018	3.52	54.5
1952	estimate	2,595,548		83,622	36,534	3.53	55.1
1953	estimate	2,644,008		85,174	36,069	3.53	55.7
1954	estimate	2,695,001		86,227	35,591	3.52	56.3
1955	estimate	2,748,090		87,082	35,220	3.49	56.9
1956	estimate	2,803,024		87,871	34,891	3.47	57.4
1957	estimate	2,859,451		88,461	34,608	3.44	58.0
1958	estimate	2,916,539		88,891	34,396	3.40	58.5
1959	estimate	2,972,583		89,116	34,237	3.37	59.0
1960	estimate	3,042,150		88,752	34,414	3.31	59.4
1961	estimate	3,110,183		87,186	34,602	3.23	59.9
1962	estimate	3,177,591		82,676	34,723	3.04	60.3
1963	estimate	3,241,418		78,829	34,914	2.89	60.6
1964	estimate	3,302,158		73,754	35,100	2.71	61.0
1965	estimate	3,358,317		72,768	35,524	2.69	61.3
1966	estimate	3,413,627		71,531	36,075	2.65	61.5
1967	estimate	3,467,683		70,608	36,746	2.62	61.8
1968	estimate	3,520,720		70,422	37,529	2.59	62.0
1969	estimate	3,573,445		70,868	38,333	2.57	62.2
1970	estimate	3,626,535		72,524	39,173	2.56	62.4
1971	estimate	3,660,499		74,247	39,334	2.56	62.7
1972	estimate	3,695,356		76,316	39,507	2.56	62.9
1973	estimate	3,732,638		78,676	39,863	2.57	63.2
1974	estimate	3,772,608		81,001	40,316	2.56	63.4
1975	estimate	3,815,087		82,212	40,840	2.52	63.7
1976	estimate	3,858,805		82,966	41,410	2.47	64.0
1977	estimate	3,903,255		83,461	42,046	2.42	64.2
1978	estimate	3,947,911		84,003	42,718	2.39	64.5
1979	estimate	3,992,678		85,536	43,200	2.38	64.8
1980	estimate	4,028,100		86,679	41,757	2.38	65.2
1981	estimate	4,069,327		88,545	41,673	2.40	65.6
1982	estimate	4,109,749		91,078	42,028	2.45	65.9
1983	estimate	4,150,382		96,339	42,412	2.58	66.2
1984	estimate	4,193,770		99,814	42,854	2.67	66.4
1985	estimate	4,238,006		99,606	42,719	2.67	66.9
1986	estimate	4,284,255		101,389	42,404	2.74	67.4
1987	estimate	4,334,477		101,892	41,920	2.78	67.9
1988	estimate	4,383,651		95,121	41,898	2.63	68.2
1989	estimate	4,431,886		86,908	42,610	2.46	68.2
1990	estimate	4,446,874		82,690	44,090	2.39	67.9
1991	estimate	4,455,422		77,499	45,921	2.28	67.5
1992	estimate	4,457,795		74,867	48,898	2.22	66.8
1993	estimate	4,453,626		71,045	50,287	2.11	66.7
1994	estimate	4,442,851		66,754	51,927	1.99	66.3
1995	estimate	4,426,061		60,870	52,601	1.82	66.2
1996	estimate	4,402,361		56,724	52,772	1.71	66.3
1997	estimate	4,372,950		59,210	52,283	1.79	66.5
1998	estimate	4,338,126		54,468	51,321	1.65	66.8
1999	estimate	4,299,303		51,365	50,427	1.56	67.2
2000	estimate	4,257,128		49,582	50,054	1.50	67.5
2001	estimate	4,212,805		48,937	49,967	1.47	67.7
2002	estimate	4,166,735		48,403	50,181	1.45	67.8
2003	estimate	4,119,124		49,826	50,279	1.48	67.9
2004	estimate	4,071,715		52,540	50,147	1.54	68.0
2005	estimate	4,021,624		52,326	49,560	1.53	68.2
2006	estimate	3,955,713		52,146	48,871	1.54	68.4
2007	estimate	3,886,920		52,729	48,054	1.57	68.7
2008	estimate	3,815,871		53,882	47,018	1.64	69.0
2009	estimate	3,743,137		55,412	45,718	1.72	69.4
2010	estimate	3,669,283		53,699	44,237	1.70	69.9
2011	estimate	3,594,700		50,741	43,345	1.65	70.2
2012	estimate	3,519,832		49,632	42,838	1.66	70.3
2013	estimate	3,445,421		47,022	42,806	1.62	70.3
2014	estimate	3,372,054		51,128	42,649	1.82	70.2
2015	estimate	3,313,364		50,054	43,042	1.87	70.1
2016	estimate	3,260,965		48,179	42,887	1.89	70.2
2017	estimate	3,214,623		43,948	42,325	1.81	70.4
2018	estimate	3,172,372		41,867	42,986	1.81	70.2
2019	estimate	3,135,174		39,334	43,325	1.78	70.2
2020	estimate	3,089,950		37,065	45,297	1.77	69.9
2021	estimate	3,048,312		34,837	50,498	1.75	69.0
2022	estimate	2,999,245		32,056	39,732	1.69	71.5
2023	estimate	3,080,724		32,986	41,730	1.73	71.2
2024	estimate	3,053,416		32,140	41,953	1.73	71.3
2025	projection	3,016,505	3.0–3.0 million	31,009	42,039	1.72	71.5
2026	projection	2,975,706	2.9–3.0 million	29,962	42,144	1.72	71.6
2027	projection	2,946,801	2.9–3.0 million	29,290	42,266	1.72	71.7
2028	projection	2,917,966	2.9–3.0 million	28,743	42,379	1.72	71.9
2029	projection	2,889,017	2.8–3.0 million	28,295	42,492	1.72	72.0
2030	projection	2,859,879	2.8–3.0 million	27,903	42,573	1.72	72.2
2031	projection	2,830,604	2.7–2.9 million	27,588	42,703	1.72	72.3
2032	projection	2,801,910	2.7–2.9 million	27,376	42,813	1.72	72.4
2033	projection	2,773,429	2.6–2.9 million	27,253	42,872	1.72	72.6
2034	projection	2,744,738	2.6–2.9 million	27,182	42,904	1.71	72.7
2035	projection	2,716,201	2.5–2.9 million	27,195	42,900	1.71	72.9
2036	projection	2,687,820	2.4–2.9 million	27,222	42,838	1.71	73.0
2037	projection	2,660,364	2.4–2.9 million	27,351	42,751	1.71	73.1
2038	projection	2,633,422	2.3–2.9 million	27,529	42,617	1.71	73.3
2039	projection	2,607,101	2.3–2.9 million	27,740	42,422	1.71	73.4
2040	projection	2,581,133	2.2–2.9 million	27,950	42,188	1.71	73.6
2041	projection	2,556,487	2.2–2.9 million	28,209	41,915	1.71	73.7
2042	projection	2,532,875	2.1–2.9 million	28,425	41,579	1.71	73.9
2043	projection	2,509,808	2.1–2.9 million	28,575	41,224	1.70	74.0
2044	projection	2,487,236	2.0–2.9 million	28,583	40,875	1.70	74.1
2045	projection	2,465,730	2.0–2.9 million	28,466	40,463	1.70	74.3
2046	projection	2,444,153	1.9–3.0 million	28,148	39,998	1.70	74.4
2047	projection	2,423,376	1.9–3.0 million	27,682	39,547	1.70	74.6
2048	projection	2,403,003	1.9–3.0 million	27,087	39,076	1.70	74.7
2049	projection	2,382,767	1.8–3.0 million	26,378	38,598	1.70	74.9
2050	projection	2,361,942	1.8–3.0 million	25,568	38,131	1.70	75.0
2051	projection	2,341,676	1.7–3.0 million	24,737	37,674	1.70	75.2
2052	projection	2,320,696	1.7–3.0 million	23,866	37,246	1.70	75.3
2053	projection	2,299,585	1.6–3.0 million	23,026	36,812	1.70	75.4
2054	projection	2,278,029	1.6–3.1 million	22,197	36,384	1.70	75.6
2055	projection	2,256,193	1.6–3.1 million	21,425	36,007	1.70	75.7
2056	projection	2,234,263	1.5–3.1 million	20,714	35,659	1.70	75.9
2057	projection	2,211,922	1.5–3.1 million	20,067	35,333	1.70	76.0
2058	projection	2,189,921	1.4–3.2 million	19,532	35,025	1.70	76.1
2059	projection	2,167,872	1.4–3.2 million	19,076	34,732	1.70	76.3
2060	projection	2,145,661	1.3–3.2 million	18,711	34,471	1.70	76.4
2061	projection	2,122,954	1.3–3.2 million	18,422	34,210	1.70	76.6
2062	projection	2,100,666	1.3–3.2 million	18,217	33,985	1.70	76.7
2063	projection	2,078,509	1.2–3.2 million	18,061	33,748	1.69	76.8
2064	projection	2,056,939	1.2–3.3 million	17,986	33,546	1.69	77.0
2065	projection	2,035,381	1.1–3.3 million	17,949	33,319	1.69	77.1
2066	projection	2,014,315	1.1–3.3 million	17,953	33,037	1.69	77.3
2067	projection	1,993,844	1.0–3.3 million	17,979	32,771	1.69	77.4
2068	projection	1,973,568	1.0–3.4 million	18,044	32,471	1.69	77.6
2069	projection	1,953,698	1.0–3.4 million	18,123	32,183	1.69	77.7
2070	projection	1,934,706	0.9–3.4 million	18,194	31,887	1.68	77.8
2071	projection	1,915,851	0.9–3.4 million	18,245	31,521	1.68	78.0
2072	projection	1,898,052	0.9–3.5 million	18,313	31,126	1.68	78.1
2073	projection	1,880,716	0.9–3.5 million	18,367	30,711	1.68	78.3
2074	projection	1,864,061	0.8–3.6 million	18,363	30,287	1.68	78.4
2075	projection	1,847,676	0.8–3.6 million	18,313	29,853	1.68	78.6
2076	projection	1,831,868	0.8–3.6 million	18,213	29,397	1.68	78.7
2077	projection	1,816,615	0.7–3.7 million	18,069	28,932	1.68	78.8
2078	projection	1,801,136	0.7–3.7 million	17,859	28,460	1.68	79.0
2079	projection	1,786,184	0.7–3.8 million	17,608	27,980	1.68	79.1
2080	projection	1,771,485	0.7–3.8 million	17,303	27,500	1.68	79.3
2081	projection	1,757,140	0.6–3.8 million	16,971	27,019	1.68	79.4
2082	projection	1,742,999	0.6–3.9 million	16,616	26,554	1.68	79.5
2083	projection	1,729,032	0.6–3.9 million	16,191	26,130	1.68	79.7
2084	projection	1,715,176	0.6–4.0 million	15,768	25,745	1.68	79.8
2085	projection	1,701,538	0.6–4.0 million	15,364	25,373	1.68	79.9
2086	projection	1,687,680	0.6–4.1 million	14,967	25,061	1.68	80.1
2087	projection	1,674,035	0.5–4.1 million	14,580	24,789	1.68	80.2
2088	projection	1,660,512	0.5–4.1 million	14,207	24,570	1.68	80.3
2089	projection	1,646,876	0.5–4.2 million	13,883	24,409	1.68	80.5
2090	projection	1,633,307	0.5–4.3 million	13,594	24,269	1.68	80.6
2091	projection	1,619,773	0.5–4.4 million	13,327	24,174	1.67	80.7
2092	projection	1,605,917	0.5–4.4 million	13,120	24,119	1.68	80.9
2093	projection	1,592,012	0.5–4.5 million	12,942	24,075	1.67	81.0
2094	projection	1,578,042	0.5–4.5 million	12,817	24,063	1.67	81.1
2095	projection	1,564,102	0.5–4.6 million	12,714	24,057	1.67	81.3
2096	projection	1,550,000	0.4–4.7 million	12,655	24,069	1.67	81.4
2097	projection	1,535,994	0.4–4.7 million	12,625	24,090	1.68	81.5
2098	projection	1,522,118	0.4–4.8 million	12,591	24,085	1.67	81.7
2099	projection	1,508,264	0.4–4.8 million	12,589	24,090	1.67	81.8
2100	projection	1,494,588	0.4–4.9 million	12,610	24,047	1.67	81.9

Show the numbers: Moldova, mid-2026, by single year of age

Moldova: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	15,275	14,387
1	15,486	14,549
2	15,803	14,834
3	16,022	15,046
4	16,666	15,653
5	17,749	16,666
6	18,710	17,560
7	19,768	18,548
8	20,802	19,517
9	22,222	20,852
10	23,539	22,087
11	24,006	22,522
12	23,607	22,157
13	22,496	21,228
14	21,324	20,496
15	20,351	20,156
16	19,743	20,046
17	19,251	19,768
18	18,600	19,130
19	17,822	18,310
20	17,022	17,534
21	16,224	16,732
22	15,388	15,745
23	14,602	14,739
24	13,992	13,985
25	13,520	13,540
26	13,160	13,324
27	13,039	13,318
28	13,324	13,766
29	14,074	14,824
30	15,200	16,194
31	16,664	17,815
32	18,354	19,600
33	19,560	20,741
34	20,032	21,115
35	20,864	21,748
36	22,274	22,898
37	23,522	24,133
38	24,526	25,154
39	25,251	25,825
40	24,986	25,700
41	23,850	24,906
42	22,681	24,140
43	21,272	23,090
44	19,948	22,024
45	19,339	21,576
46	18,932	21,430
47	18,257	21,004
48	17,758	20,575
49	17,624	20,600
50	17,527	20,716
51	17,193	20,584
52	16,732	20,436
53	16,417	20,350
54	16,041	19,880
55	15,508	19,186
56	15,061	18,822
57	14,884	18,905
58	14,858	19,224
59	14,761	19,432
60	14,524	19,538
61	14,587	20,011
62	15,178	21,189
63	15,777	22,427
64	16,286	23,356
65	16,633	24,267
66	16,516	24,820
67	15,933	24,315
68	14,944	23,050
69	13,728	21,824
70	12,582	20,703
71	11,707	19,879
72	10,775	18,910
73	9,941	17,886
74	9,598	17,623
75	9,242	17,550
76	8,632	16,926
77	7,199	14,471
78	4,734	10,001
79	3,080	7,020
80	2,282	5,544
81	1,876	4,871
82	1,934	5,322
83	2,003	5,810
84	1,920	5,930
85	1,498	5,050
86	1,116	4,159
87	901	3,696
88	717	3,222
89	562	2,731
90	424	2,212
91	308	1,730
92	213	1,307
93	151	1,011
94	111	803
95	78	616
96	50	441
97	31	298
98	19	206
99	12	146
100+	14	277

MDA · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Moldova, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

MDA · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Moldova

Moldova had the most working-age people it is ever expected to have in 1991: 2,843,900 people aged 15–64, against 1,974,980 in 2023.

100 aged 15–64

31 children

24 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 18 years: 2001–2018.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

MDA · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Moldova, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Moldova loses 4,300 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 2,560 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 500 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 89,154 (2022) and the most it lost was 84,039 (2010).

In 2024, 188,207 people living in Moldova had been born in another country, 6 of every 100 people there, against 12 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

MDA · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Moldova

Of every 100 babies born in Moldova in 2023, 6 had a mother under 20, 75 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 19 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 7 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

1950
7 · 77 · 16

2023
6 · 75 · 19

2050 · projected
1 · 71 · 28

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023: 32,986
Average age when women have a baby: 28.0 years; 29.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 23; 39 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Moldova by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	121	64	1	0	0	0
15–19	5,580	7,218	8,361	2,114	344	222
20–24	24,215	34,947	20,979	7,323	2,158	1,444
25–29	23,047	20,853	12,220	8,916	6,227	3,751
30–34	13,578	10,382	5,257	8,484	9,790	4,322
35–39	8,526	6,719	2,245	5,160	5,820	2,277
40–44	3,797	1,825	513	959	1,169	554
45–49	507	204	6	30	60	40
50–54	0	0	0	0	0	0
All babies	79,371	82,212	49,582	32,986	25,568	12,610

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

MDA · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Moldova

In Moldova, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 61.2 (95% range 60.5–61.9), out of 69.6 in all. The years in less than full health come to 8.4, below the world's 9.5: shorter lives leave fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

63.6 in full health, 10.0 not: 73.6 years

Men

58.8 in full health, 6.7 not: 65.5 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 63.6 healthy years of 73.6. Men: 58.8 of 65.5. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 64.4.

MDA · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Moldova

At the end of 2025, Moldova was hosting 149,918 people who had crossed a border into it, about 50 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad149,918
Moldova nationals abroad8,868

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 5,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Moldova living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 2,465 people asked for asylum in Moldova for the first time; 2,423 people from Moldova asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Moldova whose claims were decided that year, 5 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

MDA · of every 100 people

How people live in Moldova

Of every 100 people in Moldova in 2025, 23 lived in a city, 31 in a town or suburb and 46 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 22.6 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

MDA · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Moldova went in school

Almost every adult in Moldova went to school: of every 100 in 2020, 70 finished upper secondary or went further.

1 some primary 4 finished primary 25 finished lower secondary 55 finished upper secondary 15 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 were most numerous in 2020, the first year counted, and are never as many again in the middle projection; nor are the ones who finished upper secondary.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

MDA · cities · 2025

Cities in Moldova

Moldova had 5 cities in 2025, home to 679,624 people. The largest, Chișinău, holds 14 of every 100 people in Moldova.

Chișinău422,035
Tiraspol84,072
Bender61,255
Rybnitsa59,285
Bălți52,977

How to read this: one bar for each of the 5 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Moldova are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.