Population — national citizens

In 2020, Bulgaria's population decreased by 1.6% compared to 2019, reaching 6,457,589.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 410,499,424.

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 7.3% (from 6,963,308 in 2015).

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