Bulgaria: 24% fewer residents than in 1988
8.99M people lived there in 1988 and 6.8M in 2023 (UN estimates). UN medium variant: 5.4M in 2050, 3.53M in 2100.
Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →
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- The European Commission expected low inflation for 2022. In all 27 EU countries it came in higher
- Bulgaria: more deaths than births for over 30 years in a row
- Resettling refugees under the 2015 European deal: 2 countries of 12 took all they pledged
- Bulgaria: 1.5 times as many people aged 65+ as children under 15
- Finland produces 20 tonnes of waste a year per person; 520 kg of it is municipal
- Austria and Bulgaria: women born in 1977 had almost the same number of children, but 21% and 6% stayed childless