Population — national citizens

In 2018, Bulgaria's population decreased by 1.5% compared to 2017, reaching 6,668,711.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 411,593,089.

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 6.8% (from 7,157,954 in 2013).

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