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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Bulgaria	Germany	Bulgaria	Germany
1960	7,867,374	72,814,900	-	-
1961	7,943,118	73,377,632	0.96%	0.77%
1962	8,012,946	74,025,784	0.88%	0.88%
1963	8,078,145	74,714,353	0.81%	0.93%
1964	8,144,340	75,318,337	0.82%	0.81%
1965	8,204,168	75,963,695	0.73%	0.86%
1966	8,258,057	76,600,311	0.66%	0.84%
1967	8,310,226	76,951,336	0.63%	0.46%
1968	8,369,603	77,294,314	0.71%	0.45%
1969	8,434,172	77,909,682	0.77%	0.8%
1970	8,489,574	78,169,289	0.66%	0.33%
1971	8,536,395	78,312,842	0.55%	0.18%
1972	8,576,200	78,688,452	0.47%	0.48%
1973	8,620,967	78,936,666	0.52%	0.32%
1974	8,678,745	78,967,433	0.67%	0.04%
1975	8,720,742	78,673,554	0.48%	-0.37%
1976	8,758,599	78,336,950	0.43%	-0.43%
1977	8,804,183	78,159,814	0.52%	-0.23%
1978	8,814,032	78,091,820	0.11%	-0.09%
1979	8,825,940	78,126,350	0.14%	0.04%
1980	8,861,535	78,288,576	0.4%	0.21%
1981	8,891,117	78,407,907	0.33%	0.15%
1982	8,917,457	78,333,366	0.3%	-0.1%
1983	8,939,738	78,128,282	0.25%	-0.26%
1984	8,960,679	77,858,685	0.23%	-0.35%
1985	8,960,547	77,684,873	-0.001%	-0.22%
1986	8,958,171	77,720,436	-0.03%	0.05%
1987	8,971,359	77,839,920	0.15%	0.15%
1988	8,981,446	78,144,619	0.11%	0.39%
1989	8,876,972	78,751,283	-1.16%	0.78%
1990	8,718,289	79,433,029	-1.79%	0.87%
1991	8,632,367	80,013,896	-0.99%	0.73%
1992	8,540,164	80,624,598	-1.07%	0.76%
1993	8,472,313	81,156,363	-0.79%	0.66%
1994	8,443,591	81,438,348	-0.34%	0.35%
1995	8,406,067	81,678,051	-0.44%	0.29%
1996	8,362,826	81,914,831	-0.51%	0.29%
1997	8,312,068	82,034,771	-0.61%	0.15%
1998	8,256,786	82,047,195	-0.67%	0.02%
1999	8,210,624	82,100,243	-0.56%	0.06%
2000	8,170,172	82,211,508	-0.49%	0.14%
2001	8,009,142	82,349,925	-1.97%	0.17%
2002	7,837,161	82,488,495	-2.15%	0.17%
2003	7,775,327	82,534,176	-0.79%	0.06%
2004	7,716,860	82,516,260	-0.75%	-0.02%
2005	7,658,972	82,469,422	-0.75%	-0.06%
2006	7,601,022	82,376,451	-0.76%	-0.11%
2007	7,545,338	82,266,372	-0.73%	-0.13%
2008	7,492,561	82,110,097	-0.7%	-0.19%
2009	7,444,443	81,902,307	-0.64%	-0.25%
2010	7,395,599	81,776,930	-0.66%	-0.15%
2011	7,348,328	80,274,983	-0.64%	-1.84%
2012	7,305,888	80,425,823	-0.58%	0.19%
2013	7,160,005	80,645,605	-2%	0.27%
2014	7,073,572	80,982,500	-1.21%	0.42%
2015	6,984,225	81,686,611	-1.26%	0.87%
2016	6,894,139	82,348,669	-1.29%	0.81%
2017	6,803,468	82,657,002	-1.32%	0.37%
2018	6,710,798	82,905,782	-1.36%	0.3%
2019	6,616,726	83,092,962	-1.4%	0.23%
2020	6,550,696	83,160,871	-1%	0.08%
2021	6,507,301	83,196,078	-0.66%	0.04%
2022	6,465,097	83,177,813	-0.65%	-0.02%
2023	6,446,596	83,287,273	-0.29%	0.13%
2024	6,441,421	83,516,593	-0.08%	0.28%
2025	6,400,309	83,045,276	-0.64%	-0.56%
2026	6,355,610	82,619,736	-0.7%	-0.51%
2027	6,308,107	82,420,656	-0.75%	-0.24%
2028	6,258,719	82,209,650	-0.78%	-0.26%
2029	6,207,977	81,988,746	-0.81%	-0.27%
2030	6,155,992	81,767,011	-0.84%	-0.27%
2031	6,103,481	81,541,291	-0.85%	-0.28%
2032	6,051,290	81,315,327	-0.86%	-0.28%
2033	5,998,932	81,094,150	-0.87%	-0.27%
2034	5,946,256	80,879,704	-0.88%	-0.26%
2035	5,893,732	80,669,570	-0.88%	-0.26%
2036	5,840,887	80,445,835	-0.9%	-0.28%
2037	5,787,725	80,222,108	-0.91%	-0.28%
2038	5,735,248	80,001,936	-0.91%	-0.27%
2039	5,683,154	79,780,699	-0.91%	-0.28%
2040	5,631,243	79,565,092	-0.91%	-0.27%
2041	5,580,085	79,361,541	-0.91%	-0.26%
2042	5,529,877	79,167,400	-0.9%	-0.24%
2043	5,480,581	78,962,964	-0.89%	-0.26%
2044	5,431,913	78,743,160	-0.89%	-0.28%
2045	5,383,915	78,518,131	-0.88%	-0.29%
2046	5,336,412	78,293,579	-0.88%	-0.29%
2047	5,289,023	78,066,226	-0.89%	-0.29%
2048	5,242,022	77,826,011	-0.89%	-0.31%
2049	5,195,580	77,578,876	-0.89%	-0.32%
2050	5,149,391	77,335,610	-0.89%	-0.31%

From 2006 to 2016, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 706,883 people (a 9.3% decline), while Germany lost 27,782 people (a 0.03% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, Bulgaria lost -538,529 (a 7.81% decline), while Germany's population increased by 271,067 (a 0.33% growth).

Bulgaria was ranked 95th most populous country in 2006 and is 112th in 2026. Germany was ranked 14th in 2006 and ranked 19th 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 Germany will decrease by 6.4% to 77,335,610 people and rank change from 19th to 24th.