How many I was and how many I stayed. Birth rates are falling and Moldova is aging. Experts: “We as a nation are disappearing from the map of the globe”
The population of our country is smaller every year. And that’s because fewer people are born, and thousands of people go abroad every year. An analysis conducted by the economic policy expert, Veaceslav Ionita, shows that last year alone, almost 40,000 Moldovans went abroad.
The Republic of Moldova is depopulating at an alarming rate. In the last 30 years, the population of our country has decreased by 1.5 million inhabitants. If after independence there were over 4 million Moldovans in the country, this year there are not even 3 million. The population on the left bank of the Dniester has halved, and that on the right bank of the Dniester by more than a million.
MOLDOVAN POPULATION / MILLION INHABITANTS
1991 2022 SA REDUS
TOTAL 4,363 2,867 1,496
RIGHT OF THE Dniester 3,633 2,563 1,070
LEFT OF THE Dniester 731,000 304,000 427,000
Veaceslav IONITA, EXPERT ECONOMIST: “The Republic of Moldova is a negative champion in terms of migration and population decline in Europe, and inside the Republic of Moldova there is the left bank of the Dniester, which is a double champion, where migration and population was much higher than in the rest of the country. ”
According to Veaceslav Ionita, the share of Moldovan citizens in the world has doubled in the last 60 years.
Mihaela TABARCEA, PRO TV REPORTER: “60 years ago, the population of the Republic of Moldova represented 0.1 percent of the world’s population. In 2022, it represents only 0.05 percent of the total population. “
MOLDOVAN’S SHARE IN THE WORLD
1961 – 0.10%
2000 – 0.07%
2022 – 0.05%
The main cause is low birth rates.
Veaceslav IONITA, EXPERT ECONOMIST: “Physically, our citizens die and no others are born in their place and two, geographically, our citizens seem to be their country and go to another country. We as a nation are simply disappearing from the map of the globe. “
According to the expert, at present, the number of deaths is much higher than that of newborns.
Mihaela TABARCEA, PRO TV REPORTER: “By the year 2000, the number of newborns was almost equal to that of the deceased. Since then, however, the death rate has begun to rise and the birth rate to rise. Thus, in the last five years, 23,000 fewer people have been born than died. “
THE NATURAL INCREASE OF THE MOLDOVAN POPULATION
DEAD BORN
1996-2000 215,000 214,000
2001-2016 214,000 196,000
2016-2021 190,000 167,000
The expert states that the more than one million Moldovans who have left the country in the last 30 years are young people fit for work.
Veaceslav IONITA, EXPERT ECONOMIST: “Every year, exactly one generation goes abroad. As many as they are born in a year, so many go abroad. We are simply in a demographic deadlock, and the number one problem for the future development of the Republic of Moldova will be the lack of labor. “
The strongest wave of departures was recorded five years ago.
From 2016 to 2020, more than 200,000 Moldovans left the Republic of Moldova, which means an average of more than 42,000 people a year. Last year, 36,000 citizens left the country.
POPULATION MIGRATION ABROAD
THE YEAR OF A THOUSAND PEOPLE
2016-2020 212
2021-2022 36
According to the expert, what determines Moldovans to choose the path abroad is the lack of a job, with a well-paid salary.