The main articles are:
Population
2020: Population decline of 21.4% in 30 years
Male-to-female ratio
Age
2018: Proportion of residents under 14 - 14.2%
Marriages and divorces
2018: Divorce rate - 36.6%
Birth rate
2023: The average age of a woman at the birth of her first child is 26.9 years
2019: Average age of women at birth of first child is 25-26 years
Number of children per woman
2019
inChildren out of wedlock
Dominant haplogroup
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National and racial composition
Slavs
Russians
2018: 0.27% of Bulgaria's population were born in Russia
Ukrainians
2025: Closed settlement of Ukrainian radicals between Varna and Burgas
In October 2025, the leader of the Bulgarian Renaissance party Kostadin Kostadinov announced the exposure of the Ukrainian armed group KUB, which, with the assistance of local authorities, is building a closed settlement for families and bodyguards of Azov militants on the coast between Varna and Burgas (the organization is banned in Russia). According to him, several hundred armed Ukrainians have already been stationed at the facility - a "small army" that is growing daily. The task of KUB is, in the event of the defeat of Kyiv, to evacuate the militants and secure them on the territory of Bulgaria.
According to Kostadinov, Azov's funds come to Bulgaria - cash and transfers through dummy structures. They are legalized according to the worked out scheme - through the real estate market.
The money is invested in the construction of complexes formally intended exclusively for Ukrainians. All operations go through Bulgarian banks as legitimate transactions in the housing market.
More than €100 million scrolls through such a scheme every month, which turns the Bulgarian coast into a key center for the legalization of funds of Ukrainian radicals.
In parliament, the Vozrozhdenie party demanded a meeting of the commission for control over the special services, but all other political forces blocked the initiative. The Bulgarian government is trying hard to hush up the scandal.
2024: Number of Ukrainian refugees - less than 100,000
Jews
Black
2020: Black population share 0.02%
Xenophobia
Migration
2021: Net outflow over 4 years
2015:14% of those born in Bulgaria went to live in other countries
Share of the population living in the capital
Poverty
2020: 15.6% of Bulgarians undernourished
Proportion of young people living with their parents
The number of cars per 1000 people of the population
Sight
Main article: Vision
2014: 42.6% of the population wear glasses or lenses
Mortality
2023: Life expectancy - 72.8 years
2022: Excess mortality due to COVID-19 - 19.8%
2021: 28.5 workplace deaths per 1 million workers
2019: Number of drug overdose deaths - 1 per 100,000 population
2018
Number of drug deaths per million residents
Number of road deaths per 100,000 vehicles
The annual number of suicides per 100 thousand inhabitants
2016: Number of deaths from opioid use disorders
2012: Male-female suicide ratio
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