Romania 
Facts
Population:
22,364,022 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
17.95% (male 2,054,323; female 1,959,196)
15-64 years:
68.51% (male 7,605,751; female 7,715,434)
65 years and over:
13.54% (male 1,255,880; female 1,773,438) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
-0.21% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
10.8 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
12.28 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.6 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.71 male(s)/female
total population:
0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
19.36 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
70.16 years
male:
66.36 years
female:
74.19 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.35 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.02% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
7,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
350 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Romanian(s)
adjective:
Romanian
Ethnic groups:
Romanian 89.5%, Hungarian 7.1%, Roma 1.8%, German 0.5%, Ukrainian 0.3%, other 0.8% (1992)
Religions:
Romanian Orthodox 70%, Roman Catholic 3%, Uniate Catholic 3%, Protestant 6%, unaffiliated 18%
Languages:
Romanian, Hungarian, German
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
97%
male:
98%
female:
95% (1992 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $132.5 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
2.2% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $5,900 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
13.9%
industry:
32.6%
services:
53.5% (2000)
Population below poverty line:
44.5% (2000)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.8%
highest 10%:
20.2% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
45.7% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
9.9 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 40%, industry 25%, services 35% (1998)
Unemployment rate:
11.5% (1999)
Budget:
revenues:
$11.7 billion
expenditures:
$12.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)
Industries:
textiles and footwear, light machinery and auto assembly, mining, timber, construction materials, metallurgy, chemicals, food processing, petroleum refining
Industrial production growth rate:
8% (2000)
Electricity - production:
49.036 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
53.99%
hydro:
36.18%
nuclear:
9.81%
other:
0.02% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
44.768 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
1.935 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
1.1 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, potatoes, grapes; eggs, sheep
Exports:
$11.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
textiles and footwear 26%, metals and metal products 15%, machinery and equipment 11%, minerals and fuels 6% (1999)
Exports - partners:
Italy 23%, Germany 18%, France 6%, Turkey 5%, US (1999)
Imports:
$11.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment 23%, fuels and minerals 12%, chemicals 9%, textile and products 19% (1999)
Imports - partners:
Italy 20%, Germany 19%, France 7%, Russia 6% (1999)
Debt - external:
$9.3 billion (2000 est.)
Currency:
leu (ROL)
Currency code:
ROL
Exchange rates:
lei per US dollar - 26,243.0 (January 2001), 21,708.7 (2000), 15,332.8 (1999), 8,875.6 (1998), 7,167.9 (1997), 3,084.2 (1996); note - lei is the plural form of leu
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Satirical weekly), Bucharest
http://www.catavencu.ro
(Independent), Bucharest
http://adevarulonline.ro/
Azi
(National Salvation Front-affiliated), Bucharest
(Independent), Bucharest
http://www.azi.ro
(Daily Newspaper), Bucharest
http://www.daily-news.ro
(Business monthly), Bucharest
http://www.businesstravelromania.ro/
(Independent, Conservative), Bucharest
http://www.cotidianul.ro
Romania in the News
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Comment from Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and Macedonia
Le Monde's Mirel Bran interviews former Romanian dissident Doina Cornea about the experience of reading her secret police file and discovering how many trusted colleagues had spied on her.
Andrei Stoiciu reviews the Romanian press coverage of the possible enlargement of NATO to include the southeastern European states.
The European Union is rubbing some people in Eastern Europe the wrong way. In a commentary for the pro-government Vjesnik (Oct. 31) of Zagreb, Maja Freundlich accuses the EU of plotting to return Croatia to Yugoslavia.
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