Bulgaria's population declines at a rate of around 0.5% a year, meaning that a decrease by 2 million is to be expected in 50 years.

The United Nations projects that in 75 years, Bulgaria’s population will shrink to around 3.5 million people, according to ...

Bulgaria has lost 582,000 people over the last ten years, a nationwide census has revealed. The EU newcomer, who has now 7,351,633 inhabitants, has lost 1.5 million of its population since 1985, a ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s population has declined by 11.5% in the past decade, according to first results from the 2021 census. The National Statistical Institute said that the nation ...

Bulgaria’s population has declined by 11.5 percent over the past decade, according to preliminary census results. The population fell by more than 844,000 people, from 7.3 million to 6.5 million ...

By Irina Vilcu & Slav Okov Once a week, Georgi Petrov drives to a wheat field outside the northern Bulgarian village of ...

Results from Bulgaria's 2001 census released at the same time as the statistics institute's survey put the country's population at just under 8 million (7,932,000), a drop of nearly half a million ...

A survey says that if the trend continues Bulgaria will lose a third of its 7.5 million population in a few decades' time.

The UN projects that Bulgaria’s population will fall from 7.2m to 5.2m by 2050, making it the world’s fastest-shrinking country (the next nine are also in eastern Europe).

Bulgaria is projected to have the fastest-shrinking population in the world. It's already lost a fifth of its population since the 1990s. But what does this mean for those who remain? Deep in the ...

Low birth rate A survey says that if the trend continues Bulgaria will lose a third of its 7.5 million population in a few decades' time. The exodus from Bulgaria is set to increase as EU membership ...