By September 2026, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) had published 13 datasets from the 2024 Population and Housing Census. These contain detailed information on the country’s population, households and housing conditions.
Elon Musk drew attention to the demographic situation in the European Union, noting the threat of extinction facing Western nations amid declining birth rates. The entrepreneur commented on UN statistics showing a decline in the fertility rate in the world’s largest economies since 1950 and a decrease in the population of Western nations.
The 2030 census in Moldova will be conducted using AI and digital “signs of life.” The official statistics agency plans to use government registries, databases, and digital traces instead of the traditional door-to-door canvass. Citizens will be able to verify their own data online. The UN is providing these recommendations to national agencies in preparation for the next round of the global census.
While Moldova’s population continues to decline, the size of the government bureaucracy, on the contrary, is growing. Economic expert Tatiana Iovv reported this on her social media page.
According to official data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the infant mortality rate in 2025 declined significantly. The decline in infant mortality, along with an overall reduction in the number of deaths in the country (to 13.5 per 1,000 inhabitants), was one of the key factors contributing to the increase in life expectancy in Moldova, which, by the end of 2025, had risen by nearly 10 months to 72.8 years.
In 60 of the world’s 197 countries, the proportion of the population living in rural areas exceeds that of the urban population. Moldova is among them; 56.4% of its residents live outside cities.
Ukraine has taken another step toward post-war recovery by signing 160 agreements worth over 10 billion euros at the Conference on Ukraine’s Recovery in Gdańsk, Poland. However, EU officials acknowledge that even large-scale investments will not yield the expected results unless the labor shortage is addressed.
In Moldova, internal migration is actively underway. Rural residents are moving to cities, causing many small villages to become depopulated and lose their demographic potential. In 2025, internal migration led to an increase of 5,1 thousand people in the population of urban areas, at the expense of rural areas.
The Commission on Human Rights and Interethnic Relations is calling on the government to make combating population outflow its top priority, given the critical demographic situation in the country.
Moldova has 2,365.6 thousand permanent residents as of January 1, 2026, having “lost” about 22.9 thousand (1%) of the country’s population during the year. Preliminary data is published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The annual loss remains tangible, but there is also some slowdown in depopulation processes. This conclusion should, obviously, follow after comparing the figures of loss in 2005 (-22.9 thousand) and in 2024 (-27 thousand), which the NBS draws attention to in the beginning of the official publication.
