Location:
Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea,
between Romania and Turkey
Area:
total area:
110,910 sq km
land area:
110,550 sq km
comparative area:
slightly larger than Tennessee
Land boundaries:
total 1,808 km;
Greece 494 km, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 148 km,
Romania 608 km, Serbia and Montenegro 318 km (all with Serbia),
Turkey 240 km
Coastline: 354 km
Population: 8,775,198 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
19% (female 800,413; male 841,697)
15-64 years:
66% (female 2,927,880; male 2,910,133)
65 years and over:
15% (female 735,706; male 559,369)
Population growth rate: -0.25% (1995 est.)
Birth rate: 11.75 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 11.31 deaths/1,000 population
Net migration rate: -2.91 migrant(s)/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 11.4 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
73.68 years
male:
70.43 years
female:
77.1 years
Total fertility rate: 1.71 children born/woman
Ethnic divisions:
Bulgarian 85.3%, Turk 8.5%, Gypsy 2.6%,
Macedonian 2.5%, Armenian 0.3%, Russian 0.2%,
other 0.6%
Religions:
Bulgarian Orthodox 85%, Muslim 13%, Jewish 0.8%,
Roman Catholic 0.5%, Uniate Catholic 0.2%,
Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other 0.5%
Languages:
Bulgarian; secondary languages closely
correspond to ethnic breakdown
Literacy:
age 15 and over can read and write (1992)
total population:
98%
male:
99%
female:
97%
Names:
conventional long form:
Republic of Bulgaria
conventional short form:
Bulgaria
Type: emerging democracy
Capital: Sofia
Independence: 22 September 1908 (from Ottoman Empire)
Constitution: adopted 12 July 1991
National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $33.7 billion
National product real growth rate: 0.2%
National product per capita: $3,830
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 122%
Unemployment rate: 16%
Electricity:
capacity:
11,500,000 kW
production:
35.9 billion kWh
consumption per capita:
3,827 kWh
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