Population — national citizens

In 2024, Bulgaria's population decreased by 0.6% compared to 2023, reaching 6,322,795.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.6% of the EU-27 total of 406,216,013.

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 3.7% (from 6,565,004 in 2019).

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