Bulgaria: population and ages

In mid-1950 there were 7.25 million people, so the population is now -8% smaller.

The UN projects 59,300 births and 102,000 deaths in 2026, 42,900 more deaths than births.

Deaths have outnumbered births every year since 1990.

The median age is 45.0, which is 13.9 years above the world’s 31.1.

14% of the people are under 15 and 22% are 65 or older (world: 24% and 11%).

People aged 65 and over have outnumbered children under 15 since 2000.

Women have 1.7 children on average at today’s rates (world: 2.2), against 2.5 in 1950.

Life expectancy at birth is 76.1 years, above the world’s 73.8. In 1950 it was 61.5.

For mid-2050 the UN projects 5.4 million people, 19% fewer than now, with a median age of 48.0.

By the death rates of 2023, life expectancy at birth was 75.6 years. People who had reached 65 could expect 18.3 more years for women and 14.5 for men.

On 1 January 2026, there are 35.3 people aged 65 or more for every 100 aged 15 to 64. For 2050, the UN projects 51.4.

For 2100 the UN projects a population of 3.53 million, with a 95 percent prediction interval of 2.07 million to 5.96 million.

Life expectancy at birth is a period measure. It sums up the death rates of one year and is not a forecast of how long the babies born that year will live.

In mid-2024, 299,000 international migrants lived here, 4.4% of the population.

In mid-2024, 1.25 million people from here lived in other countries.