Population — national citizens

In 2017, Bulgaria's population decreased by 1.4% compared to 2016, reaching 6,767,835.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 412,331,382.

Bulgaria ranks 15th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 7.1% (from 7,287,717 in 2012).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_pop1ctz, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.