Population

From the demographic point of view, the city has been on a general upward line, as follows:

● 1852-7300 inhabitants

● 1910-17445 inhabitants

● 1920-23691 inhabitants

● 1956-24219 inhabitants

● 1978 to 38095 inhabitants

● 1992-44229 inhabitants

● 1998-48526 inhabitants

Regarding demographics, census 2002 certified as Sighetul Marmatiei has a population of 41 220 of people. They ethnic following configuration:

Romanian – 32.867 – 79.73%

Greci – 1 – 0.0%

Hungarians – 6513 – 15.80%

Hebrew – 20 – 0.04%

Ukrainians – 1,226 – 2.97%

Czechs – 1 – 0.0%

Roma (Gypsies) – 448 – 1.08%

Poland – 1 – 0.0%

Germany – 105 – 0.25%

Italian – 8 – 0.01%

Lippovan- Russians – 2 – 0.0%

Armeni – 2 – 0.0%

Turkey – 2 – 0.0%

Csango – 1 – 0.0%

Serbian – 3 – 0.0% Slovaks – 1 – 0.0%

Other ethnicities – 17 – 0.04%

Ethnicity undeclared – 2 – 0.0%

According to the same census, Sighet was in 2002 following

Configuration of the population by age and sex:

● 0-14 years, men: 3944 – 9.56%

● 0-14 years, women: 3707 – 8.99%

● 15-59 years, males: 13,525 – 32.81%

● 15-69 years, women: 14.287 – 34.66%

● 60+ years, male: 2.381 – 5.77%

● 60+ years, women: 3367 – 8.19%

According to the census conducted in 2011 the population of the municipality Sighet amounts to 37 640 inhabitants , down from the previous census in 2002, when it had registered 41 220 inhabitants. Most inhabitants are Romanian ( 76.07 %). The main minorities are the Hungarians ( 11.73 %) , Ukrainians (1.99 %) and Roma (1.3%) . For 8.65 % of the population is unknown ethnicity . As most of the inhabitants are Orthodox confessionally ( 65.49 %) , but there are Roman Catholic minority ( 10.99 %) , Greek Catholics ( 5.23 %) , Protestants (3.05 %) and witnesses Jehovah’s (2.2%) . For 9.38 % of the population is not known confessional .