Bulgaria Demographics Population Religion Percentage 2017 by City Immigrants
Bulgaria, Europe, World Population May 16, 2017,
Bulgaria Demographics Population Religion Percentage 2017
Bulgaria Demographics Population Religion Percentage 2017
Bulgaria has a high Human Development Index of 0.794, ranking 56th in the world in 2016 and holds the 38th position in Newsweek's rankings of the world's best countries to live in, measuring health, education, political environment and economic dynamism.
Various estimates have put Bulgaria's medieval population at 1.1 million in 700 AD and 2.6 million in 1365. The latest 2011 census, the population inhabiting Bulgaria is 7,364,570 in total.The peak was in 1989, the year when the borders opened after a half of a century of communist regime, when the population numbered 9,009,018.
The demography of the Republic of Bulgaria is monitored by the "Natsionalen Statisticheski Institut" (National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria).
Bulgaria demographics Population by Religion
|
Group |
Population |
Perc. of answered |
Perc. of population |
|
Eastern Orthodox Christianity |
4,374,135 |
76.00% |
59.40% |
|
None or unspecified |
2,288,431 |
11.80% |
31.10% |
|
Sunni Islam |
546,004 |
9.50% |
7.40% |
|
Protestant Christianity |
64,476 |
1.10% |
0.90% |
|
Roman Catholic Christianity |
48,945 |
0.80% |
0.70% |
|
Shia Islam |
27,407 |
0.50% |
0.40% |
|
Unaffiliated Islam |
3,728 |
0.10% |
0.10% |
|
Oriental Orthodox Christianity |
1,715 |
0.00% |
0.00% |
|
Judaism |
706 |
0.00% |
0.00% |
|
Others |
9,023 |
0.20% |
0.10% |
|
Figure of percentage |
– |
5,758,301 |
7,364,570 |
Bulgaria demographics Population by Immigrants
According to official data, the number of permanent foreign residents in Bulgaria as at 31.12.2008 is 66,806 and the vast majority of these come from Russia (21,309), Ukraine (5,350), the Republic of Macedonia (4,375), Turkey (3,828) and Moldova (2.203). This number does not include immigrants who have already obtained Bulgarian citizenship or illegal immigrants. The number of immigrants in Bulgaria was expected to grow as a result of the accession of Bulgaria in the European Union in 2007.
Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, the number of Syrian refugees in Bulgaria grew. Together with the Syrian refugee families, many illegal migrants, mainly males, from countries like Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Eritrea, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Iraq entered illegally through the Bulgarian-Turkish border.
|
Immigrants |
Population |
|
Russia |
21,309 |
|
Ukraine |
5,350 |
|
Republic of Macedonia |
4,375 |
|
Turkey |
3,828 |
|
Moldova |
2.203 |
|
Total |
66,806 |
Bulgaria demographics Population by Race
.
|
Ethnic groups by confession |
Total |
Bulgarians |
Turks |
Roma |
Others |
|||||
|
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
|
|
Orthodoxy |
6,552,751 |
83 |
6,315,938 |
95 |
5,425 |
0.7 |
180,326 |
49 |
51,062 |
|
|
Islam |
966,978 |
12 |
131,531 |
2 |
713,024 |
96 |
103,436 |
28 |
18,987 |
|
|
Irreligion |
308,116 |
3.9 |
151,008 |
2.3 |
23,146 |
3.1 |
59,669 |
16 |
|
|
|
Roman Catholicism |
43,811 |
0.6 |
37,811 |
0.6 |
2,561 |
0.3 |
|
|
|
|
|
Protestantism |
42,308 |
0.5 |
14,591 |
0.2 |
2,066 |
0.3 |
24,651 |
6.6 |
1,000 |
|
|
Others |
14,937 |
0.2 |
4,331 |
0.1 |
442 |
0.1 |
|
|
|
|
|
Total population |
7,928,901 |
100 |
6,655,210 |
100 |
746,664 |
100 |
370,908 |
100 |
|
100 |
Bulgaria Population by City
.
|
S.No. |
Name |
Population |
Latitude/Longitude |
|
1 |
Sofia |
1,152,556 |
42.698 / 23.324 |
|
2 |
Plovdiv |
340,494 |
42.15 / 24.75 |
|
3 |
Varna |
312,770 |
43.217 / 27.917 |
|
4 |
Burgas |
195,966 |
42.506 / 27.468 |
|
5 |
Rousse |
156,238 |
43.856 / 25.971 |
|
6 |
Stara Zagora |
143,431 |
42.433 / 25.642 |
|
7 |
Pleven |
118,675 |
43.417 / 24.617 |
|
8 |
Sliven |
96,368 |
42.686 / 26.329 |
|
9 |
Dobrich |
94,831 |
43.567 / 27.833 |
|
10 |
Shumen |
87,283 |
43.271 / 26.923 |
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