The Wikipedia article on religion in Romania, reporting that the 2011 census recorded 16,307,004 people, 81.04 percent of the population, as Romanian Orthodox, falling to 73.4 percent in the 2021 census's partial results, a decline of roughly 2.3 million Orthodox identifying inhabitants over the decade.
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Reliability Tier3
Tertiary reference compiling Romania's own 2011 and 2021 national census religion tables rather than the primary tables themselves; the same one-remove standing already given to other national census compilations on this axis. Citation
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Romania
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Romania directly: "The Wikipedia article on religion in Romania, reporting that the 2011 census recorded 16,307,004 people, 81.04 percent of the population, as Romanian Orthodox, falling to 73.4 percent in the 2021..."
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