Population — national citizens

In 2025, Bulgaria's population decreased by 0.6% compared to 2024, reaching 6,284,422.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.5% of the EU-27 total of 405,729,577.

Bulgaria ranks 14th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 2.7% (from 6,457,589 in 2020).

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