Beltz - Demographics

Demographics

Births (2010): 1573 (10.6 per 1000)
Deaths (2010): 1447 (9.7 per 1000)
Growth rate (2010): 126 (0.9 per 1000)

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1819	1,600	—
1830	3,738	+133.6%
1861	5,900	+57.8%
1897	18,500	+213.6%
1902	22,300	+20.5%
1915	24,000	+7.6%
1930	30,570	+27.4%
1959	67,666	+121.3%
1970	105,505	+55.9%
1979	126,950	+20.3%
1989	161,475	+27.2%
1995	154,800	−4.1%
2000	151,300	−2.3%
2002	146,500	−3.2%
2004	144,300	−1.5%
2006	143,200	−0.8%
2008	143,200	+0.0%
2010	143,300	+0.1%
2012	144,300	+0.7%

According to the 2004 Moldovan Census, data submitted by the Department of Statistics and Sociology of the Republic of Moldova, the population of municipality of Bălți was 127,561, of which the population of the city itself was 122,669, and that of the suburban villages of Elizaveta and Sadovoe was of 3,523, respectively 1,369. Of these, 58,418 were men and 69,143 were women.

Ethnic groups, 2004:

Ethnicity	Number	%
Moldovan	66,877	52.4 %
Ukrainian	30,288	23.7 %
Russian	24,526	19.2 %
Romanian	2,258	1.8 %
Bulgarian	297	0.2 %
Gagauz	243	0.2 %
other	2,889	2,3 %
not declared	183	0.1 %

The population of Bălți in accordance with available census data.

Year	1897	1930	1959	1970	1979	1989	2004
Population	18,500	30,570	67,666	105,505	126,950	161,475	127,561

In 1897, the first Russian Empire Census was carried out, in 1959, 1970, 1979, 1989, Soviet Union population census, and in 1930 a census of Romania (according to which, of the 30,570 inhabitants of the city, 14,200 were Jews, 8,900 Romanians, 5,400 Russians and Ukrainians, 1,000 Poles; 14,400 were Christian Orthodox, 14,250 Judaic, 1,250 Romano-Catholic). In 1939 another Romanian census was carried out, but its data was never processed because of the beginning of World War II. The decrease in population in the 1990s was also affected by the emigration of most of the Jewish population to Israel and other developed countries.