Romani people in Romania

Romani people in Romania, locally and pejoratively referred to as the Țigani (IPA: [t͡siˈɡanʲ]), constitute the second largest ethnic minority in the country behind Hungarians. According to the 2021 census, their number was 569,477 people, constituting 3.4% of the total population.

The real size of the total population of Romani people in Romania is considered to be higher, with different estimates varying from 4.6 percent to over 10 percent of the population, as many Romani do not declare themselves as such. In 2007, the Council of Europe (CoE) estimated that approximately 1.85 million Roma lived in Romania, based on an average between the lowest estimate (1.2 to 2.2 million people) and the highest estimate (1.8 to 2.5 million people) with a maximum percentage of 12%, available at the time; the highest estimate, generated for the year 1991 and originating from a Securitate report, is considered unreliable, and Romanian post-communist censuses have consistently produced far lower figures. CoE's average estimate is equivalent to 8.32% of the population, a figure difficult to verify due to the mobility of Romani and the reluctance of some to disclose their ethnicity.