Demographics
| Historical population of Craiova | |||||||||||||
| Year | Population | %± | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 45,438 | — | |||||||||||
| 1912 census | 51,404 | 13.1% | |||||||||||
| 1930 census | 63,215 | 22.9% | |||||||||||
| 1948 census | 84,574 | 33.7% | |||||||||||
| 1956 census | 96,897 | 14.5% | |||||||||||
| 1966 census | 148,711 | 53.4% | |||||||||||
| 1977 census | 221,261 | 48.7% | |||||||||||
| 1992 census | 303,959 | 37.3% | |||||||||||
| 2002 census | 302,601 | −0.4% | |||||||||||
| 2011 census | 243,765 | −19.4% | |||||||||||
As of 2011, 243,765 inhabitants live within the city limits, a decrease from the figure recorded in 2002, making it the sixth most populous city in Romania. Ethnic composition:
- Romanians: 237,233 (97.32%)
- Hungarians: 168 (0.06%)
- Germans: 83 (0.03%)
- Serbs: 34 (0.01%)
- Roma: 10,116 (4.15%)
- Italians: 178 (0.06%)
- Greeks: 188 (0.06%)
and 471 others.
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