The Demographic Profile of Chișinău Municipality
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The Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” has prepared a detailed demographic profile of Chișinău municipality, based on the National Bureau of Statistics' 2022 revised population and migration data and the Generations and Gender Survey. It examines population structure, fertility, migration, employment, health, education and well-being in the capital.
Chișinău has 677.5 thousand residents (26% of the country's population), 90% of them urban. Natural increase turned negative in 2020-2021 (−3.1‰ in 2021), the total fertility rate is 1.27 children per woman, and births fell from 7.4 thousand in 2014 to 6.2 thousand in 2021. Emigration cut the population by 12.6% in 2014-2021, although net internal migration was 12.5 thousand in 2021; one in five residents plans to leave.
Only 55.5% of people aged 15-64 are in paid work (66.9% of men, 48.0% of women), and just 33.3% of households cover basic needs easily. Some 45% of workers struggle to combine job and family duties, women especially. Medical staff are scarce, and early education is overstretched, with 102 children per 100 places. The study concludes that demographic ageing will deepen, but well-managed decline can bring opportunities, such as lower congestion and pressure on utilities.
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