Population of Bulgaria

Source	UN (World Population Prospects 2024)
Date	14 Jan 2025

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The current population of Bulgaria is 6,718,201 as of June 16, 2025, based on interpolation of the latest United Nations data. The population of Bulgaria is projected at 6,757,689, or 6.76 million, as of July 1, 2024. The total population in Bulgaria is projected at 6,795,803, or 6.80 million people for the year 2023.

Bulgaria ranks 110th in the world by population on the 237 countries and territories list. Bulgaria is ranked 20th among 50 countries and territories in Europe.

Population
Growth rate
Net change

Bulgaria population estimates
Year	Population		Growth		Share (%)
Year	1 Jan	1 July	Net Change	rate (%)	to World
1950	7,207,370	7,248,511	82,281	1.135	0.2907
1951	7,289,651	7,314,435	49,567	0.678	0.2883
1952	7,339,218	7,361,952	45,468	0.618	0.2849
1953	7,384,686	7,415,922	62,473	0.842	0.2815
1954	7,447,159	7,476,269	58,219	0.779	0.2784
1955	7,505,378	7,533,654	56,552	0.751	0.2749
1956	7,561,930	7,587,166	50,471	0.665	0.2714
1957	7,612,401	7,649,539	74,277	0.971	0.2682
1958	7,686,678	7,724,891	76,427	0.989	0.2653
1959	7,763,105	7,794,173	62,137	0.797	0.2628
1960	7,825,242	7,862,926	75,369	0.959	0.2608
1961	7,900,611	7,938,300	75,378	0.950	0.2590
1962	7,975,989	8,008,325	64,672	0.808	0.2564
1963	8,040,661	8,073,731	66,140	0.819	0.2529
1964	8,106,801	8,140,084	66,567	0.818	0.2494
1965	8,173,368	8,202,416	58,097	0.708	0.2460
1966	8,231,465	8,258,785	54,641	0.662	0.2426
1967	8,286,106	8,311,124	50,036	0.602	0.2393
1968	8,336,142	8,370,638	68,992	0.824	0.2361
1969	8,405,134	8,435,276	60,285	0.715	0.2331
1970	8,465,419	8,490,825	50,811	0.598	0.2298
1971	8,516,230	8,538,898	45,336	0.531	0.2265
1972	8,561,566	8,579,913	36,693	0.428	0.2231
1973	8,598,259	8,624,800	53,083	0.615	0.2200
1974	8,651,342	8,682,755	62,826	0.724	0.2173
1975	8,714,168	8,723,148	17,961	0.206	0.2143
1976	8,732,129	8,759,438	54,617	0.624	0.2114
1977	8,786,746	8,804,686	35,880	0.408	0.2087
1978	8,822,626	8,813,746	-17,759	-0.201	0.2053
1979	8,804,867	8,824,992	40,250	0.456	0.2020
1980	8,845,117	8,859,537	28,839	0.326	0.1992
1981	8,873,956	8,887,801	27,690	0.312	0.1963
1982	8,901,646	8,912,732	22,172	0.249	0.1932
1983	8,923,818	8,933,326	19,015	0.213	0.1902
1984	8,942,833	8,952,604	19,542	0.218	0.1872
1985	8,962,375	8,958,854	-7,042	-0.079	0.1840
1986	8,955,333	8,963,469	16,272	0.182	0.1808
1987	8,971,605	8,976,204	9,199	0.102	0.1778
1988	8,980,804	8,985,715	9,822	0.109	0.1748
1989	8,990,626	8,936,380	-108,491	-1.214	0.1707
1990	8,882,135	8,822,365	-119,540	-1.355	0.1656
1991	8,762,595	8,695,797	-133,596	-1.536	0.1605
1992	8,628,999	8,559,101	-139,797	-1.633	0.1555
1993	8,489,202	8,466,533	-45,338	-0.535	0.1514
1994	8,443,864	8,416,917	-53,893	-0.640	0.1483
1995	8,389,971	8,357,574	-64,794	-0.775	0.1451
1996	8,325,177	8,291,398	-67,558	-0.815	0.1419
1997	8,257,619	8,217,102	-81,034	-0.986	0.1387
1998	8,176,585	8,138,194	-76,781	-0.943	0.1355
1999	8,099,804	8,067,462	-64,683	-0.802	0.1325
2000	8,035,121	8,000,520	-69,203	-0.865	0.1296
2001	7,965,918	7,928,452	-74,932	-0.945	0.1268
2002	7,890,986	7,861,943	-58,087	-0.739	0.1240
2003	7,832,899	7,804,409	-56,979	-0.730	0.1216
2004	7,775,920	7,749,430	-52,980	-0.684	0.1192
2005	7,722,940	7,695,050	-55,781	-0.725	0.1168
2006	7,667,159	7,640,294	-53,730	-0.703	0.1145
2007	7,613,429	7,586,888	-53,082	-0.700	0.1123
2008	7,560,347	7,535,592	-49,511	-0.657	0.1101
2009	7,510,836	7,488,011	-45,649	-0.610	0.1080
2010	7,465,187	7,437,599	-55,177	-0.742	0.1059
2011	7,410,010	7,380,025	-59,970	-0.813	0.1038
2012	7,350,040	7,317,014	-66,053	-0.903	0.1016
2013	7,283,987	7,264,600	-38,775	-0.534	0.0996
2014	7,245,212	7,223,449	-43,525	-0.603	0.0979
2015	7,201,687	7,177,517	-48,340	-0.673	0.0961
2016	7,153,347	7,127,434	-51,826	-0.727	0.0943
2017	7,101,521	7,075,636	-51,771	-0.732	0.0925
2018	7,049,750	7,024,745	-50,009	-0.712	0.0909
2019	6,999,741	6,975,469	-48,544	-0.696	0.0893
2020	6,951,197	6,933,652	-35,090	-0.506	0.0879
2021	6,916,107	6,877,225	-77,763	-1.131	0.0865
2022	6,838,344	6,825,864	-24,960	-0.366	0.0851
2023	6,813,384	6,795,803	-35,162	-0.517	0.0840

Bulgaria population projections
Year	Population		Growth		Share (%)
Year	1 Jan	1 July	Net Change	rate (%)	to World
2024	6,778,222	6,757,689	-41,067	-0.608	0.0828
2025	6,737,155	6,714,560	-45,191	-0.673	0.0816
2026	6,691,964	6,667,659	-48,609	-0.729	0.0803
2027	6,643,355	6,617,828	-51,054	-0.771	0.0791
2028	6,592,301	6,566,018	-52,566	-0.801	0.0778
2029	6,539,735	6,512,786	-53,898	-0.828	0.0766
2030	6,485,837	6,458,243	-55,188	-0.855	0.0754
2031	6,430,649	6,403,153	-54,992	-0.859	0.0742
2032	6,375,657	6,348,399	-54,517	-0.859	0.0730
2033	6,321,140	6,293,470	-55,340	-0.879	0.0718
2034	6,265,800	6,238,212	-55,177	-0.885	0.0707
2035	6,210,623	6,183,114	-55,018	-0.890	0.0696
2036	6,155,605	6,127,669	-55,872	-0.912	0.0685
2037	6,099,733	6,071,890	-55,687	-0.917	0.0674
2038	6,044,046	6,016,846	-54,400	-0.904	0.0664
2039	5,989,646	5,962,193	-54,906	-0.921	0.0654
2040	5,934,740	5,907,728	-54,024	-0.914	0.0644
2041	5,880,716	5,854,056	-53,321	-0.911	0.0634
2042	5,827,395	5,801,386	-52,017	-0.897	0.0625
2043	5,775,378	5,749,677	-51,402	-0.894	0.0616
2044	5,723,976	5,698,614	-50,725	-0.890	0.0607
2045	5,673,251	5,648,256	-49,990	-0.885	0.0598
2046	5,623,261	5,598,424	-49,674	-0.887	0.0590
2047	5,573,587	5,548,705	-49,764	-0.897	0.0582
2048	5,523,823	5,499,404	-48,837	-0.888	0.0574
2049	5,474,986	5,450,678	-48,615	-0.892	0.0566
2050	5,426,371	5,402,217	-48,309	-0.894	0.0559
2051	5,378,062	5,354,139	-47,846	-0.894	0.0552
2052	5,330,216	5,306,434	-47,565	-0.896	0.0545
2053	5,282,651	5,258,697	-47,908	-0.911	0.0538
2054	5,234,743	5,210,895	-47,696	-0.915	0.0531
2055	5,187,047	5,163,244	-47,606	-0.922	0.0524
2056	5,139,441	5,115,852	-47,177	-0.922	0.0518
2057	5,092,264	5,068,667	-47,193	-0.931	0.0512
2058	5,045,071	5,021,579	-46,984	-0.936	0.0505
2059	4,998,087	4,974,221	-47,731	-0.960	0.0499
2060	4,950,356	4,926,388	-47,936	-0.973	0.0493
2061	4,902,420	4,878,501	-47,839	-0.981	0.0487
2062	4,854,581	4,830,917	-47,329	-0.980	0.0481
2063	4,807,252	4,783,587	-47,331	-0.989	0.0476
2064	4,759,921	4,736,305	-47,232	-0.997	0.0470
2065	4,712,689	4,689,240	-46,898	-1.000	0.0464
2066	4,665,791	4,642,625	-46,332	-0.998	0.0459
2067	4,619,459	4,596,676	-45,565	-0.991	0.0453
2068	4,573,894	4,551,628	-44,531	-0.978	0.0448
2069	4,529,363	4,507,404	-43,919	-0.974	0.0443
2070	4,485,444	4,463,711	-43,466	-0.974	0.0438
2071	4,441,978	4,420,782	-42,393	-0.959	0.0433
2072	4,399,585	4,378,825	-41,520	-0.948	0.0429
2073	4,358,065	4,337,610	-40,909	-0.943	0.0424
2074	4,317,156	4,297,012	-40,287	-0.938	0.0420
2075	4,276,869	4,257,602	-38,533	-0.905	0.0415
2076	4,238,336	4,219,621	-37,430	-0.887	0.0411
2077	4,200,906	4,182,529	-36,753	-0.879	0.0407
2078	4,164,153	4,146,350	-35,607	-0.859	0.0404
2079	4,128,546	4,111,021	-35,050	-0.853	0.0400
2080	4,093,496	4,076,463	-34,067	-0.836	0.0396
2081	4,059,429	4,043,363	-32,131	-0.795	0.0393
2082	4,027,298	4,011,530	-31,536	-0.786	0.0390
2083	3,995,762	3,980,550	-30,424	-0.764	0.0387
2084	3,965,338	3,950,392	-29,892	-0.757	0.0384
2085	3,935,446	3,920,959	-28,975	-0.739	0.0381
2086	3,906,471	3,892,425	-28,091	-0.722	0.0378
2087	3,878,380	3,864,743	-27,274	-0.706	0.0376
2088	3,851,106	3,837,896	-26,420	-0.688	0.0373
2089	3,824,686	3,811,654	-26,064	-0.684	0.0371
2090	3,798,622	3,785,849	-25,545	-0.675	0.0369
2091	3,773,077	3,760,385	-25,384	-0.675	0.0366
2092	3,747,693	3,735,003	-25,380	-0.680	0.0364
2093	3,722,313	3,709,666	-25,295	-0.682	0.0362
2094	3,697,018	3,684,337	-25,362	-0.688	0.0360
2095	3,671,656	3,659,088	-25,137	-0.687	0.0357
2096	3,646,519	3,633,686	-25,665	-0.706	0.0355
2097	3,620,854	3,608,077	-25,553	-0.708	0.0353
2098	3,595,301	3,582,563	-25,477	-0.711	0.0351
2099	3,569,824	3,556,979	-25,691	-0.722	0.0349
2100	3,544,133	3,531,198	-25,871	-0.733	0.0347