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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bulgaria was 6,444,366 in 2024 vs 283,487,931 people in Indonesia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bulgaria's population is 6,403,235 people compared to 287,460,768 in Indonesia.

Population statistics:

  • Indonesia's population is 44.9 times bigger than Bulgaria's.
  • Bulgaria is ranked the 111th most populous country in the world, while Indonesia is the 4th.
  • The countries together account for 3.55% of the world: 0.08% for Bulgaria vs 3.48% for Indonesia.
  • For the last 10 years, Bulgaria has had an average growth rate of -0.95% per year vs +0.94% in Indonesia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bulgaria has decreased from 7.66M people to 6.4M (16.4% decline), while Indonesia has grown from 231M to 287M (24.5% growth).
  • Indonesia is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 323M people, while Bulgaria's population already peaked in 1988 at 8.98M people and is projected to decrease to 3.37M people by 2100.

Bulgaria vs Indonesia: live population counter

Bulgaria Indonesia
Current population
6403235
287460768
Population rank 111/197 4/197
Percent of world population 0.08% 3.48%
One net population change
3.93 hours
13.7 seconds
One birth every
9.16 minutes
7.04 seconds
One death every
5.19 minutes
14.9 seconds
One migration net change every
16.7 hours
13.7 minutes
Annual migration change +524 -38,469
Daily growth/decline -6 +6,296
Annual growth/decline -2,230 +2,297,864
Annual growth/decline rate -0.03% +0.82%
Population growth rate rank 168/197 117/197

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

Bulgaria
Population

Growth rate
Indonesia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bulgaria Indonesia Bulgaria Indonesia
1960 7,867,374 88,296,070 - -
1961 7,943,118 90,791,249 0.96% 2.83%
1962 8,012,946 93,375,850 0.88% 2.85%
1963 8,078,145 96,051,424 0.81% 2.87%
1964 8,144,340 98,833,749 0.82% 2.9%
1965 8,204,168 101,365,130 0.73% 2.56%
1966 8,258,057 103,792,754 0.66% 2.39%
1967 8,310,226 106,526,393 0.63% 2.63%
1968 8,369,603 109,450,006 0.71% 2.74%
1969 8,434,172 112,517,639 0.77% 2.8%
1970 8,489,574 115,657,495 0.66% 2.79%
1971 8,536,395 118,833,702 0.55% 2.75%
1972 8,576,200 122,039,841 0.47% 2.7%
1973 8,620,967 125,288,515 0.52% 2.66%
1974 8,678,745 128,555,045 0.67% 2.61%
1975 8,720,742 131,843,848 0.48% 2.56%
1976 8,758,599 135,173,655 0.43% 2.53%
1977 8,804,183 138,533,541 0.52% 2.49%
1978 8,814,032 141,953,163 0.11% 2.47%
1979 8,825,940 145,434,834 0.14% 2.45%
1980 8,861,535 148,950,540 0.4% 2.42%
1981 8,891,117 152,485,035 0.33% 2.37%
1982 8,917,457 156,052,152 0.3% 2.34%
1983 8,939,738 159,651,381 0.25% 2.31%
1984 8,960,679 163,251,124 0.23% 2.25%
1985 8,960,547 166,776,185 -0.001% 2.16%
1986 8,958,171 170,175,065 -0.03% 2.04%
1987 8,971,359 173,511,154 0.15% 1.96%
1988 8,981,446 176,855,065 0.11% 1.93%
1989 8,876,972 180,201,630 -1.16% 1.89%
1990 8,718,289 183,501,098 -1.79% 1.83%
1991 8,632,367 186,778,238 -0.99% 1.79%
1992 8,540,164 190,043,744 -1.07% 1.75%
1993 8,472,313 193,305,168 -0.79% 1.72%
1994 8,443,591 196,591,828 -0.34% 1.7%
1995 8,406,067 199,888,057 -0.44% 1.68%
1996 8,362,826 203,204,348 -0.51% 1.66%
1997 8,312,068 206,536,095 -0.61% 1.64%
1998 8,256,786 209,826,788 -0.67% 1.59%
1999 8,210,624 213,004,668 -0.56% 1.51%
2000 8,170,172 216,077,790 -0.49% 1.44%
2001 8,009,142 219,097,902 -1.97% 1.4%
2002 7,837,161 222,088,495 -2.15% 1.36%
2003 7,775,327 225,048,008 -0.79% 1.33%
2004 7,716,860 227,926,649 -0.75% 1.28%
2005 7,658,972 230,871,650 -0.75% 1.29%
2006 7,601,022 233,951,652 -0.76% 1.33%
2007 7,545,338 237,062,337 -0.73% 1.33%
2008 7,492,561 240,157,903 -0.7% 1.31%
2009 7,444,443 243,220,028 -0.64% 1.28%
2010 7,395,599 246,305,322 -0.66% 1.27%
2011 7,348,328 249,470,032 -0.64% 1.28%
2012 7,305,888 252,698,525 -0.58% 1.29%
2013 7,160,005 255,852,467 -2% 1.25%
2014 7,073,572 258,877,399 -1.21% 1.18%
2015 6,984,225 261,799,249 -1.26% 1.13%
2016 6,894,139 264,627,418 -1.29% 1.08%
2017 6,803,468 267,346,658 -1.32% 1.03%
2018 6,710,798 269,951,846 -1.36% 0.97%
2019 6,616,726 272,489,381 -1.4% 0.94%
2020 6,550,696 274,814,866 -1% 0.85%
2021 6,507,301 276,758,053 -0.66% 0.71%
2022 6,465,097 278,830,529 -0.65% 0.75%
2023 6,446,596 281,190,067 -0.29% 0.85%
2024 6,444,366 283,487,931 -0.03% 0.82%
2025 6,403,235 285,721,231 -0.64% 0.79%
2026 6,358,515 287,886,778 -0.7% 0.76%
2027 6,310,991 289,986,520 -0.75% 0.73%
2028 6,261,580 292,016,774 -0.78% 0.7%
2029 6,210,816 293,978,106 -0.81% 0.67%
2030 6,158,806 295,876,644 -0.84% 0.65%
2031 6,106,271 297,719,741 -0.85% 0.62%
2032 6,054,057 299,510,654 -0.86% 0.6%
2033 6,001,675 301,250,975 -0.87% 0.58%
2034 5,948,975 302,938,571 -0.88% 0.56%
2035 5,896,427 304,566,615 -0.88% 0.54%
2036 5,843,557 306,135,097 -0.9% 0.51%
2037 5,790,371 307,646,407 -0.91% 0.49%
2038 5,737,870 309,096,450 -0.91% 0.47%
2039 5,685,753 310,481,116 -0.91% 0.45%
2040 5,633,818 311,797,391 -0.91% 0.42%
2041 5,582,636 313,041,656 -0.91% 0.4%
2042 5,532,405 314,211,278 -0.9% 0.37%
2043 5,483,086 315,304,309 -0.89% 0.35%
2044 5,434,397 316,318,412 -0.89% 0.32%
2045 5,386,376 317,249,609 -0.88% 0.29%
2046 5,338,852 318,096,567 -0.88% 0.27%
2047 5,291,441 318,862,018 -0.89% 0.24%
2048 5,244,419 319,554,646 -0.89% 0.22%
2049 5,197,955 320,173,244 -0.89% 0.19%
2050 5,151,745 320,712,941 -0.89% 0.17%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 674,747 people (a 8.81% decline), while Indonesia gained 30,927,599 people (a 13.4% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bulgaria lost -580,990 (a 8.32% decline), while Indonesia's population increased by 25,661,519 (a 9.8% growth).

Bulgaria was ranked 92nd most populous country in 2005 and is 111th in 2025. Indonesia was ranked 4th in 2005 and still ranked 4th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Bulgaria's population will shrink by 19.5% to 5,151,745 people with a rank change from 111th to 128th. The population of Indonesia will increase by 11.6% to 320,712,941 people and rank change from 4th to 6th.

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