Annual average number of population – the arithmetic mean of the number of the population at the beginning of the reference year and at the beginning of the next year.
Average annual number of population – the arithmetic average of population at the beginning of the reference year and beginning of the next year.
Demographic dependency ratio of the old people – represents the number of elderlies returning to 100 persons aged 15-64, at the beginning of the reference year.
Demographic burden index- the number of people unable to work per 100 people of working age.
Life expectancy – is an estimate of the average number of years a person would live if the age-specific mortality rates of a reference year were to remain unchanged throughout their lifetime.
Life expectancy at birth– the average number of years a new born has to live in that period, if during the life the mortality level at each age will remain the same as it was in the year of birth.
Place of usual residence – the place where a person usually spends his or her daily rest time, regardless of temporary absences for the purpose of rest, leave/vacation, visits to relatives and friends, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimages.
Ageing factor of population - the number of people aged 60 and over per 100 inhabitants.
Number of present population - it is determined based on the results of the 2004 census and the data related to the natural movement and migration officially recorded in the reference year. At the same time, the change in the number of the population following the territorial-administrative reorganization is taken into account.
Stable population - the number of people who have permanent residence in the respective territory, including temporarily absent persons.
Total demographic dependency ratio - represents the number of children aged 0-14 and elderly people (aged 65 and over) per 100 people aged 15-64, at the beginning of the reference year.
Usual resident population (resident) - all persons holding the citizenship of the Republic of Moldova, the citizenship of other states and stateless persons, who, on the reference date, have usual residence on the territory of the country.
The number estimation of the population with usual residence is based on the corrected population with usual residence from the 2014 Census of Population and Housing (PHC), to which live births have been added, deaths have been subtracted (natural increase), and included the migration increase (net migration).
Place of usual residence – the place where a person usually spends his or her daily rest time, regardless of temporary absences for the purpose of rest, leave/vacation, visits to relatives and friends, business, medical treatment or religious pilgrimages.
Demographic dependency ratio of young people – represents the number of returning young people per 100 people aged 15-64, at the beginning of the reference year.