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| Bulgarian census results |
December 2, 2002
RFE/RL South Eastern Europe
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Written by Ulrich Buechsenschuetz
Posted by HW on April 18, 2024
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In an official press release on 29 November, the State Statistics Institute announced preliminary results of last year's census (for complete results, see http://www.nsi.bg/Census/Ethnos-final-n.htm).
The data concerns the ethnic, religious, and linguistic composition of Bulgaria's population. According to the statisticians, the population totaled 7.93 million people at the beginning of 2001, of whom 6.55 million (84 percent) were ethnic Bulgarians.
The country's largest minority, ethnic |
Turks, amounted to some 747,000 people (9.4 percent). The Romany community was placed at about 371,000 people (4.7 percent), but many observers believe that the real Romany population is much higher. Russian, Armenian, Vlach, Ukrainian, and Jewish diasporas each account for less than 1 percent of the total population.
Almost 83 percent of the population is Bulgarian Orthodox, while the country's 967,000-strong Muslim community accounts for more than 12 percent of the total population. |
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