Field: Agriculture, food and food security

Subfield: Quality of life in rural areas

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The indicator Population in rural areas defines the percentage of population living in rural areas relative to the total population. The evolution of this indicator has been particularly significant over the last half century. The loss of over 3 million people from rural areas can be partly explained by migration of the active population to the urban areas and to other countries and, implicitly, by the maintenance of the negative population growth. The main indicator in the field refers to rural population (% of total population). Statistical data from 2016 shows that Romania is antepenultimate in the EU (45.25%), after Slovenia (50.37%) and Slovakia (46.53%), but last when looking at the total number of dwellers in rural areas.