Population — national citizens

In 2023, Bulgaria's population decreased by 0.9% compared to 2022, reaching 6,362,447.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 407,021,139.

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 4.6% (from 6,668,711 in 2018).

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