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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Bulgaria	Italy	Bulgaria	Italy
1960	7,867,374	50,199,700	-	-
1961	7,943,118	50,536,350	0.96%	0.67%
1962	8,012,946	50,879,450	0.88%	0.68%
1963	8,078,145	51,252,000	0.81%	0.73%
1964	8,144,340	51,675,350	0.82%	0.83%
1965	8,204,168	52,112,350	0.73%	0.85%
1966	8,258,057	52,519,000	0.66%	0.78%
1967	8,310,226	52,900,500	0.63%	0.73%
1968	8,369,603	53,235,750	0.71%	0.63%
1969	8,434,172	53,537,950	0.77%	0.57%
1970	8,489,574	53,821,850	0.66%	0.53%
1971	8,536,395	54,073,490	0.55%	0.47%
1972	8,576,200	54,381,345	0.47%	0.57%
1973	8,620,967	54,751,406	0.52%	0.68%
1974	8,678,745	55,110,868	0.67%	0.66%
1975	8,720,742	55,441,001	0.48%	0.6%
1976	8,758,599	55,718,260	0.43%	0.5%
1977	8,804,183	55,955,411	0.52%	0.43%
1978	8,814,032	56,155,143	0.11%	0.36%
1979	8,825,940	56,317,749	0.14%	0.29%
1980	8,861,535	56,433,883	0.4%	0.21%
1981	8,891,117	56,501,675	0.33%	0.12%
1982	8,917,457	56,543,548	0.3%	0.07%
1983	8,939,738	56,564,074	0.25%	0.04%
1984	8,960,679	56,576,718	0.23%	0.02%
1985	8,960,547	56,593,071	-0.001%	0.03%
1986	8,958,171	56,596,155	-0.03%	0.005%
1987	8,971,359	56,601,931	0.15%	0.01%
1988	8,981,446	56,629,288	0.11%	0.05%
1989	8,876,972	56,671,781	-1.16%	0.08%
1990	8,718,289	56,719,240	-1.79%	0.08%
1991	8,632,367	56,758,521	-0.99%	0.07%
1992	8,540,164	56,797,087	-1.07%	0.07%
1993	8,472,313	56,831,821	-0.79%	0.06%
1994	8,443,591	56,843,400	-0.34%	0.02%
1995	8,406,067	56,844,303	-0.44%	0.002%
1996	8,362,826	56,860,281	-0.51%	0.03%
1997	8,312,068	56,890,372	-0.61%	0.05%
1998	8,256,786	56,906,744	-0.67%	0.03%
1999	8,210,624	56,916,317	-0.56%	0.02%
2000	8,170,172	56,942,108	-0.49%	0.05%
2001	8,009,142	56,976,981	-1.97%	0.06%
2002	7,837,161	57,089,824	-2.15%	0.2%
2003	7,775,327	57,399,184	-0.79%	0.54%
2004	7,716,860	57,828,179	-0.75%	0.75%
2005	7,658,972	58,166,682	-0.75%	0.59%
2006	7,601,022	58,399,861	-0.76%	0.4%
2007	7,545,338	58,756,247	-0.73%	0.61%
2008	7,492,561	59,211,181	-0.7%	0.77%
2009	7,444,443	59,555,454	-0.64%	0.58%
2010	7,395,599	59,819,407	-0.66%	0.44%
2011	7,348,328	60,026,841	-0.64%	0.35%
2012	7,305,888	60,191,247	-0.58%	0.27%
2013	7,160,005	60,311,613	-2%	0.2%
2014	7,073,572	60,320,707	-1.21%	0.02%
2015	6,984,225	60,229,605	-1.26%	-0.15%
2016	6,894,139	60,115,223	-1.29%	-0.19%
2017	6,803,468	60,002,252	-1.32%	-0.19%
2018	6,710,798	60,148,658	-1.36%	0.24%
2019	6,616,726	59,729,081	-1.4%	-0.7%
2020	6,550,696	59,438,851	-1%	-0.49%
2021	6,507,301	59,133,173	-0.66%	-0.51%
2022	6,465,097	59,013,667	-0.65%	-0.2%
2023	6,446,596	58,993,475	-0.29%	-0.03%
2024	6,444,366	58,986,023	-0.03%	-0.01%
2025	6,403,235	58,790,597	-0.64%	-0.33%
2026	6,358,515	58,571,823	-0.7%	-0.37%
2027	6,310,991	58,335,864	-0.75%	-0.4%
2028	6,261,580	58,094,373	-0.78%	-0.41%
2029	6,210,816	57,851,042	-0.81%	-0.42%
2030	6,158,806	57,597,622	-0.84%	-0.44%
2031	6,106,271	57,333,277	-0.85%	-0.46%
2032	6,054,057	57,071,235	-0.86%	-0.46%
2033	6,001,675	56,812,747	-0.87%	-0.45%
2034	5,948,975	56,548,816	-0.88%	-0.46%
2035	5,896,427	56,279,536	-0.88%	-0.48%
2036	5,843,557	56,009,844	-0.9%	-0.48%
2037	5,790,371	55,737,477	-0.91%	-0.49%
2038	5,737,870	55,460,735	-0.91%	-0.5%
2039	5,685,753	55,177,508	-0.91%	-0.51%
2040	5,633,818	54,889,107	-0.91%	-0.52%
2041	5,582,636	54,601,628	-0.91%	-0.52%
2042	5,532,405	54,307,412	-0.9%	-0.54%
2043	5,483,086	53,997,106	-0.89%	-0.57%
2044	5,434,397	53,679,603	-0.89%	-0.59%
2045	5,386,376	53,357,669	-0.88%	-0.6%
2046	5,338,852	53,025,288	-0.88%	-0.62%
2047	5,291,441	52,680,150	-0.89%	-0.65%
2048	5,244,419	52,324,241	-0.89%	-0.68%
2049	5,197,955	51,959,050	-0.89%	-0.7%
2050	5,151,745	51,579,060	-0.89%	-0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 674,747 people (a 8.81% decline), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bulgaria lost -580,990 (a 8.32% decline), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Bulgaria was ranked 92nd most populous country in 2005 and is 111th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th 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 Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.