Population in Bulgaria compared to Sri Lanka: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Bulgaria and Sri Lanka: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Bulgaria	Sri Lanka	Bulgaria	Sri Lanka
1960	7,867,374	9,661,389	-	-
1961	7,943,118	9,899,372	0.96%	2.46%
1962	8,012,946	10,143,754	0.88%	2.47%
1963	8,078,145	10,395,040	0.81%	2.48%
1964	8,144,340	10,653,397	0.82%	2.49%
1965	8,204,168	10,916,965	0.73%	2.47%
1966	8,258,057	11,183,928	0.66%	2.45%
1967	8,310,226	11,457,328	0.63%	2.44%
1968	8,369,603	11,736,088	0.71%	2.43%
1969	8,434,172	12,013,858	0.77%	2.37%
1970	8,489,574	12,287,110	0.66%	2.27%
1971	8,536,395	12,551,910	0.55%	2.16%
1972	8,576,200	12,809,205	0.47%	2.05%
1973	8,620,967	13,060,916	0.52%	1.97%
1974	8,678,745	13,305,693	0.67%	1.87%
1975	8,720,742	13,548,984	0.48%	1.83%
1976	8,758,599	13,796,770	0.43%	1.83%
1977	8,804,183	14,049,371	0.52%	1.83%
1978	8,814,032	14,310,128	0.11%	1.86%
1979	8,825,940	14,579,614	0.14%	1.88%
1980	8,861,535	14,847,974	0.4%	1.84%
1981	8,891,117	15,099,414	0.33%	1.69%
1982	8,917,457	15,286,567	0.3%	1.24%
1983	8,939,738	15,388,794	0.25%	0.67%
1984	8,960,679	15,441,860	0.23%	0.34%
1985	8,960,547	15,544,154	-0.001%	0.66%
1986	8,958,171	15,731,256	-0.03%	1.2%
1987	8,971,359	15,916,576	0.15%	1.18%
1988	8,981,446	16,078,621	0.11%	1.02%
1989	8,876,972	16,248,557	-1.16%	1.06%
1990	8,718,289	16,352,458	-1.79%	0.64%
1991	8,632,367	16,475,354	-0.99%	0.75%
1992	8,540,164	16,739,284	-1.07%	1.6%
1993	8,472,313	17,025,918	-0.79%	1.71%
1994	8,443,591	17,275,773	-0.34%	1.47%
1995	8,406,067	17,564,068	-0.44%	1.67%
1996	8,362,826	17,905,018	-0.51%	1.94%
1997	8,312,068	18,248,200	-0.61%	1.92%
1998	8,256,786	18,596,003	-0.67%	1.91%
1999	8,210,624	18,944,731	-0.56%	1.88%
2000	8,170,172	19,293,054	-0.49%	1.84%
2001	8,009,142	19,600,362	-1.97%	1.59%
2002	7,837,161	19,805,752	-2.15%	1.05%
2003	7,775,327	19,951,521	-0.79%	0.74%
2004	7,716,860	20,087,605	-0.75%	0.68%
2005	7,658,972	20,216,524	-0.75%	0.64%
2006	7,601,022	20,352,411	-0.76%	0.67%
2007	7,545,338	20,492,545	-0.73%	0.69%
2008	7,492,561	20,629,378	-0.7%	0.67%
2009	7,444,443	20,756,435	-0.64%	0.62%
2010	7,395,599	20,879,089	-0.66%	0.59%
2011	7,348,328	21,009,048	-0.64%	0.62%
2012	7,305,888	21,169,458	-0.58%	0.76%
2013	7,160,005	20,585,000	-2%	-2.76%
2014	7,073,572	20,778,000	-1.21%	0.94%
2015	6,984,225	20,970,000	-1.26%	0.92%
2016	6,894,139	21,209,000	-1.29%	1.14%
2017	6,803,468	21,453,000	-1.32%	1.15%
2018	6,710,798	21,670,000	-1.36%	1.01%
2019	6,616,726	21,803,000	-1.4%	0.61%
2020	6,550,696	21,919,000	-1%	0.53%
2021	6,507,301	22,156,000	-0.66%	1.08%
2022	6,465,097	22,181,000	-0.65%	0.11%
2023	6,446,596	22,037,000	-0.29%	-0.65%
2024	6,444,366	21,916,000	-0.03%	-0.55%
2025	6,403,235	22,035,440	-0.64%	0.54%
2026	6,358,515	22,148,172	-0.7%	0.51%
2027	6,310,991	22,255,601	-0.75%	0.49%
2028	6,261,580	22,357,682	-0.78%	0.46%
2029	6,210,816	22,453,922	-0.81%	0.43%
2030	6,158,806	22,546,245	-0.84%	0.41%
2031	6,106,271	22,635,106	-0.85%	0.39%
2032	6,054,057	22,720,118	-0.86%	0.38%
2033	6,001,675	22,802,043	-0.87%	0.36%
2034	5,948,975	22,879,527	-0.88%	0.34%
2035	5,896,427	22,952,739	-0.88%	0.32%
2036	5,843,557	23,022,027	-0.9%	0.3%
2037	5,790,371	23,088,877	-0.91%	0.29%
2038	5,737,870	23,152,480	-0.91%	0.28%
2039	5,685,753	23,211,633	-0.91%	0.26%
2040	5,633,818	23,265,986	-0.91%	0.23%
2041	5,582,636	23,315,260	-0.91%	0.21%
2042	5,532,405	23,359,578	-0.9%	0.19%
2043	5,483,086	23,398,752	-0.89%	0.17%
2044	5,434,397	23,433,096	-0.89%	0.15%
2045	5,386,376	23,464,943	-0.88%	0.14%
2046	5,338,852	23,492,738	-0.88%	0.12%
2047	5,291,441	23,512,629	-0.89%	0.08%
2048	5,244,419	23,525,953	-0.89%	0.06%
2049	5,197,955	23,533,940	-0.89%	0.03%
2050	5,151,745	23,538,230	-0.89%	0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 674,747 people (a 8.81% decline), while Sri Lanka gained 753,476 people (a 3.73% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bulgaria lost -580,990 (a 8.32% decline), while Sri Lanka's population increased by 1,155,995 (a 5.51% growth).

Bulgaria was ranked 92nd most populous country in 2005 and is 111th in 2025. Sri Lanka was ranked 53rd in 2005 and ranked 63rd 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 Sri Lanka will increase by 6.38% to 23,538,230 people and rank change from 63rd to 70th.