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  • Population........................................................................4,324,450 (July 2008 est.)
  • Population growth rate ..............................................................-0.092% (2008 est.)
  • Birth rate....................................................11.01 births/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Death rate..................................................10.8 deaths/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Net migration rate.................................-1.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2008 est.)
  • Ethnic groups.........Moldovan/Romanian 78.2%, Ukrainian 8.4%, Russian 5.8%, Gagauz 4.4%, Bulgarian 1.9%, other 1.3% (2004 census)

    Note: internal disputes with ethnic Slavs in the Transnistrian region
Country Profile
Moldova Seeks Stability Amid Mass Emigration
Moldova is a small country facing huge emigration spurred mainly by economic hardships, according to Michael Jandl.

Moldova page on the World Migration Map

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Other Resources

Department of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova
http://www.statistica.md/?lang=en

US Census Bureau International Data Base
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

Neighboring Countries

Ukraine
Romania

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