Population — national citizens

In 2021, Bulgaria's population decreased by 0.7% compared to 2020, reaching 6,410,333.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 408,574,754.

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 6.6% (from 6,863,112 in 2016).

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