Bulgaria - Rural population

Rural population

The value for Rural population in Bulgaria was 1,685,936 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4,948,578 in 1960 and a minimum value of 1,685,936 in 2020.

Definition: Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 4,948,578
1961 4,862,618
1962 4,768,184
1963 4,666,744
1964 4,561,889
1965 4,450,351
1966 4,357,529
1967 4,279,849
1968 4,204,219
1969 4,129,877
1970 4,049,527
1971 3,981,375
1972 3,909,118
1973 3,838,830
1974 3,773,605
1975 3,700,908
1976 3,632,541
1977 3,572,033
1978 3,496,879
1979 3,423,053
1980 3,358,522
1981 3,325,011
1982 3,290,185
1983 3,253,796
1984 3,216,973
1985 3,172,930
1986 3,135,449
1987 3,108,935
1988 3,081,354
1989 3,015,064
1990 2,931,350
1991 2,873,111
1992 2,813,472
1993 2,767,905
1994 2,739,354
1995 2,708,267
1996 2,675,519
1997 2,640,661
1998 2,604,686
1999 2,571,814
2000 2,541,005
2001 2,469,539
2002 2,388,453
2003 2,342,006
2004 2,297,078
2005 2,252,963
2006 2,209,465
2007 2,167,172
2008 2,126,239
2009 2,087,198
2010 2,048,433
2011 2,010,650
2012 1,974,416
2013 1,938,841
2014 1,903,435
2015 1,866,995
2016 1,829,783
2017 1,792,408
2018 1,755,697
2019 1,719,734
2020 1,685,936

Rural population (% of total population)

Rural population (% of total population) in Bulgaria was 24.31 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 62.90 in 1960, while its lowest value was 24.31 in 2020.

Definition: Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 62.90
1961 61.22
1962 59.51
1963 57.77
1964 56.01
1965 54.25
1966 52.77
1967 51.50
1968 50.23
1969 48.97
1970 47.70
1971 46.64
1972 45.58
1973 44.53
1974 43.48
1975 42.44
1976 41.47
1977 40.57
1978 39.67
1979 38.78
1980 37.90
1981 37.40
1982 36.90
1983 36.40
1984 35.90
1985 35.41
1986 35.00
1987 34.65
1988 34.31
1989 33.97
1990 33.62
1991 33.28
1992 32.94
1993 32.67
1994 32.44
1995 32.22
1996 31.99
1997 31.77
1998 31.55
1999 31.32
2000 31.10
2001 30.83
2002 30.48
2003 30.12
2004 29.77
2005 29.42
2006 29.07
2007 28.72
2008 28.38
2009 28.04
2010 27.70
2011 27.36
2012 27.03
2013 26.69
2014 26.35
2015 26.01
2016 25.67
2017 25.33
2018 24.99
2019 24.65
2020 24.31

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization