Bulgaria is located in Southeastern Europe and is the 14th largest country in Europe, although it is fairly sparsely populated with just 66 people per square kilometer, ranking 101st in the world.

It’s estimated that Bulgaria has a population of 7.021.000 in 2018 and 6.977.668 as of December 2019.

Bulgaria population is equivalent to 0.09% of the total world population.

75.2 % of the population is urban (5,265,832 people in 2019)

All this info shows us the tendency that Bulgaria is projected to have the fastest-shrinking population in the world. It’s already lost a fifth of its population since the 1990s.

In 1989, almost nine million people lived in Bulgaria. Now, it is a little less than 7 million. By 2050, that number is projected to be less than 5.5 million.

Negative population growth and a median age of 42.4 years old situate Bulgaria as a country that is aging quickly and reducing population, a situation that we already can see the effects, and that most probably will get worst in the next decades if the tendency doesn’t change.

What do you think about the demographics of Bulgaria?

What would be necessary to change this demographic tendency?

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