Population in Bulgaria compared to Chile: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Bulgaria and Chile: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Bulgaria	Chile	Bulgaria	Chile
1960	7,867,374	8,153,350	-	-
1961	7,943,118	8,324,802	0.96%	2.1%
1962	8,012,946	8,497,059	0.88%	2.07%
1963	8,078,145	8,670,144	0.81%	2.04%
1964	8,144,340	8,842,525	0.82%	1.99%
1965	8,204,168	9,012,938	0.73%	1.93%
1966	8,258,057	9,181,722	0.66%	1.87%
1967	8,310,226	9,348,939	0.63%	1.82%
1968	8,369,603	9,514,716	0.71%	1.77%
1969	8,434,172	9,680,282	0.77%	1.74%
1970	8,489,574	9,845,344	0.66%	1.71%
1971	8,536,395	10,009,701	0.55%	1.67%
1972	8,576,200	10,174,678	0.47%	1.65%
1973	8,620,967	10,340,362	0.52%	1.63%
1974	8,678,745	10,505,817	0.67%	1.6%
1975	8,720,742	10,671,559	0.48%	1.58%
1976	8,758,599	10,838,251	0.43%	1.56%
1977	8,804,183	11,005,519	0.52%	1.54%
1978	8,814,032	11,172,695	0.11%	1.52%
1979	8,825,940	11,339,779	0.14%	1.5%
1980	8,861,535	11,508,550	0.4%	1.49%
1981	8,891,117	11,678,717	0.33%	1.48%
1982	8,917,457	11,850,214	0.3%	1.47%
1983	8,939,738	12,026,138	0.25%	1.48%
1984	8,960,679	12,207,733	0.23%	1.51%
1985	8,960,547	12,395,274	-0.001%	1.54%
1986	8,958,171	12,588,914	-0.03%	1.56%
1987	8,971,359	12,790,150	0.15%	1.6%
1988	8,981,446	12,999,424	0.11%	1.64%
1989	8,876,972	13,215,005	-1.16%	1.66%
1990	8,718,289	13,437,176	-1.79%	1.68%
1991	8,632,367	13,662,491	-0.99%	1.68%
1992	8,540,164	13,884,577	-1.07%	1.63%
1993	8,472,313	14,102,276	-0.79%	1.57%
1994	8,443,591	14,316,256	-0.34%	1.52%
1995	8,406,067	14,527,381	-0.44%	1.47%
1996	8,362,826	14,734,046	-0.51%	1.42%
1997	8,312,068	14,932,434	-0.61%	1.35%
1998	8,256,786	15,127,799	-0.67%	1.31%
1999	8,210,624	15,319,313	-0.56%	1.27%
2000	8,170,172	15,503,635	-0.49%	1.2%
2001	8,009,142	15,683,849	-1.97%	1.16%
2002	7,837,161	15,857,925	-2.15%	1.11%
2003	7,775,327	16,024,752	-0.79%	1.05%
2004	7,716,860	16,187,322	-0.75%	1.01%
2005	7,658,972	16,348,778	-0.75%	1%
2006	7,601,022	16,509,195	-0.76%	0.98%
2007	7,545,338	16,671,581	-0.73%	0.98%
2008	7,492,561	16,838,988	-0.7%	1%
2009	7,444,443	17,009,731	-0.64%	1.01%
2010	7,395,599	17,181,464	-0.66%	1.01%
2011	7,348,328	17,351,816	-0.64%	0.99%
2012	7,305,888	17,519,119	-0.58%	0.96%
2013	7,160,005	17,687,006	-2%	0.96%
2014	7,073,572	17,864,195	-1.21%	1%
2015	6,984,225	18,047,625	-1.26%	1.03%
2016	6,894,139	18,267,221	-1.29%	1.22%
2017	6,803,468	18,558,868	-1.32%	1.6%
2018	6,710,798	18,893,191	-1.36%	1.8%
2019	6,616,726	19,197,744	-1.4%	1.61%
2020	6,550,696	19,370,624	-1%	0.9%
2021	6,507,301	19,456,334	-0.66%	0.44%
2022	6,465,097	19,553,036	-0.65%	0.5%
2023	6,446,596	19,658,835	-0.29%	0.54%
2024	6,441,421	19,764,771	-0.08%	0.54%
2025	6,400,309	19,859,915	-0.64%	0.48%
2026	6,355,610	19,945,846	-0.7%	0.43%
2027	6,308,107	20,026,149	-0.75%	0.4%
2028	6,258,719	20,100,930	-0.78%	0.37%
2029	6,207,977	20,169,619	-0.81%	0.34%
2030	6,155,992	20,233,182	-0.84%	0.32%
2031	6,103,481	20,290,979	-0.85%	0.29%
2032	6,051,290	20,341,797	-0.86%	0.25%
2033	5,998,932	20,385,069	-0.87%	0.21%
2034	5,946,256	20,422,546	-0.88%	0.18%
2035	5,893,732	20,455,937	-0.88%	0.16%
2036	5,840,887	20,485,080	-0.9%	0.14%
2037	5,787,725	20,507,949	-0.91%	0.11%
2038	5,735,248	20,524,482	-0.91%	0.08%
2039	5,683,154	20,535,707	-0.91%	0.05%
2040	5,631,243	20,542,096	-0.91%	0.03%
2041	5,580,085	20,543,284	-0.91%	0.006%
2042	5,529,877	20,539,909	-0.9%	-0.02%
2043	5,480,581	20,532,920	-0.89%	-0.03%
2044	5,431,913	20,519,677	-0.89%	-0.06%
2045	5,383,915	20,499,138	-0.88%	-0.1%
2046	5,336,412	20,473,283	-0.88%	-0.13%
2047	5,289,023	20,443,720	-0.89%	-0.14%
2048	5,242,022	20,408,327	-0.89%	-0.17%
2049	5,195,580	20,366,435	-0.89%	-0.21%
2050	5,149,391	20,320,302	-0.89%	-0.23%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 706,883 people (a 9.3% decline), while Chile gained 1,758,026 people (a 10.6% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Bulgaria lost -538,529 (a 7.81% decline), while Chile's population increased by 1,679,502 (a 9.19% growth).

Bulgaria was ranked 95th most populous country in 2006 and is 112th in 2026. Chile was ranked 60th in 2006 and ranked 67th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 24 years (in 2050) Bulgaria's population will shrink by 19% to 5,149,391 people with a rank change from 112th to 128th. The population of Chile will increase by 1.87% to 20,320,302 people and rank change from 67th to 75th.