Population — national citizens

In 2019, Bulgaria's population decreased by 1.6% compared to 2018, reaching 6,565,004.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 411,073,307.

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 7,063,376 in 2014).

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