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Sălaj County Council
www.cjsj.ro
Population, quality of life and education

Life expectancy of the population has increased significantly over the
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In January 2017, Sălaj county past 10 years, but remains below the regional, national and European
counted 215,910 inhabitants, re- average.
presenting 8,41 % of the total The ethnic minorities in Sălaj County represented 38,9 % of the stable
North West Region and 1,10 % of population, the most important ethnic group in the 2011 census being the
the Romanian population. Hungarian one (22,4 % of the stable population), followed by the number
of Roma 6,7 %), Slovaks with 0,5 % and other ethnic groups, representing
only 1,4 % of the total population in the urban environment. On the oth-
er hand, the confessional structure of the county population was, at the
2011 census, more diverse than the ethnic one: 64,4 % of the inhabitants
were Orthodox, followed by reformists (19,6 % of the total), neo protes-
1 % Sălaj tant (10,4 %), Greek Catholics (2,7 %), Roman Catholics (2,5 % of the to-
tal), the other denominations constituting only 0,6 % of the population .
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11 % North-
West Region

88 % România

Figure 3. Resident population in the
county - January 2017 20

39 % Urban

61 % Rural

Figure 4. Distribution of rural / urban
population in Sălaj County on
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20, 23 www.insse.ro
21, 22 Sălaj County Development Strategy 2015-2020