Population — national citizens

In 2022, Bulgaria's population increased by 0.1% compared to 2021, reaching 6,417,071.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 408,287,841.

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 5.2% (from 6,767,835 in 2017).

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