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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bulgaria was 6,444,366 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bulgaria's population is 6,403,235 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Taiwan's population is 3.64 times bigger than Bulgaria's.
  • Bulgaria is ranked the 111th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.36% of the world: 0.08% for Bulgaria vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, Bulgaria has had an average growth rate of -0.95% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bulgaria has decreased from 7.66M people to 6.4M (16.4% decline), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 36.6% of the population in Bulgaria and 39.5% in Taiwan.

Bulgaria vs Taiwan: live population counter

Bulgaria Taiwan
Current population
6403235
23308308
Population rank 111/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.08% 0.28%
One net population change
3.93 hours
7.75 minutes
One birth every
9.16 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
5.19 minutes
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
16.7 hours
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change +524 +47,029
Daily growth/decline -6 +186
Annual growth/decline -2,230 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate -0.03% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 168/197 150/197

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

Bulgaria
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bulgaria Taiwan Bulgaria Taiwan
1960 7,867,374 - - -
1961 7,943,118 11,030,385 0.96% -
1962 8,012,946 11,392,513 0.88% 3.28%
1963 8,078,145 11,762,101 0.81% 3.24%
1964 8,144,340 12,137,143 0.82% 3.19%
1965 8,204,168 12,511,863 0.73% 3.09%
1966 8,258,057 12,874,153 0.66% 2.9%
1967 8,310,226 13,210,344 0.63% 2.61%
1968 8,369,603 13,548,537 0.71% 2.56%
1969 8,434,172 14,068,984 0.77% 3.84%
1970 8,489,574 14,582,944 0.66% 3.65%
1971 8,536,395 14,913,564 0.55% 2.27%
1972 8,576,200 15,220,495 0.47% 2.06%
1973 8,620,967 15,505,121 0.52% 1.87%
1974 8,678,745 15,784,817 0.67% 1.8%
1975 8,720,742 16,075,128 0.48% 1.84%
1976 8,758,599 16,401,413 0.43% 2.03%
1977 8,804,183 16,730,895 0.52% 2.01%
1978 8,814,032 17,042,272 0.11% 1.86%
1979 8,825,940 17,372,779 0.14% 1.94%
1980 8,861,535 17,704,538 0.4% 1.91%
1981 8,891,117 18,029,982 0.33% 1.84%
1982 8,917,457 18,354,855 0.3% 1.8%
1983 8,939,738 18,653,146 0.25% 1.63%
1984 8,960,679 18,929,866 0.23% 1.48%
1985 8,960,547 19,191,510 -0.001% 1.38%
1986 8,958,171 19,411,454 -0.03% 1.15%
1987 8,971,359 19,617,046 0.15% 1.06%
1988 8,981,446 19,839,704 0.11% 1.14%
1989 8,876,972 20,055,492 -1.16% 1.09%
1990 8,718,289 20,278,946 -1.79% 1.11%
1991 8,632,367 20,503,568 -0.99% 1.11%
1992 8,540,164 20,704,227 -1.07% 0.98%
1993 8,472,313 20,899,019 -0.79% 0.94%
1994 8,443,591 21,086,645 -0.34% 0.9%
1995 8,406,067 21,267,653 -0.44% 0.86%
1996 8,362,826 21,441,432 -0.51% 0.82%
1997 8,312,068 21,634,124 -0.61% 0.9%
1998 8,256,786 21,835,703 -0.67% 0.93%
1999 8,210,624 22,010,489 -0.56% 0.8%
2000 8,170,172 22,184,530 -0.49% 0.79%
2001 8,009,142 22,341,120 -1.97% 0.71%
2002 7,837,161 22,463,172 -2.15% 0.55%
2003 7,775,327 22,562,663 -0.79% 0.44%
2004 7,716,860 22,646,836 -0.75% 0.37%
2005 7,658,972 22,729,753 -0.75% 0.37%
2006 7,601,022 22,823,455 -0.76% 0.41%
2007 7,545,338 22,917,444 -0.73% 0.41%
2008 7,492,561 22,997,696 -0.7% 0.35%
2009 7,444,443 23,078,402 -0.64% 0.35%
2010 7,395,599 23,140,948 -0.66% 0.27%
2011 7,348,328 23,193,518 -0.64% 0.23%
2012 7,305,888 23,270,367 -0.58% 0.33%
2013 7,160,005 23,344,670 -2% 0.32%
2014 7,073,572 23,403,635 -1.21% 0.25%
2015 6,984,225 23,462,914 -1.26% 0.25%
2016 6,894,139 23,515,945 -1.29% 0.23%
2017 6,803,468 23,555,522 -1.32% 0.17%
2018 6,710,798 23,580,080 -1.36% 0.1%
2019 6,616,726 23,596,027 -1.4% 0.07%
2020 6,550,696 23,582,179 -1% -0.06%
2021 6,507,301 23,468,275 -0.66% -0.48%
2022 6,465,097 23,319,977 -0.65% -0.63%
2023 6,446,596 23,342,541 -0.29% 0.1%
2024 6,444,366 23,410,331 -0.03% 0.29%
2025 6,403,235 23,308,308 -0.64% -0.44%
2026 6,358,515 23,205,944 -0.7% -0.44%
2027 6,310,991 23,102,120 -0.75% -0.45%
2028 6,261,580 22,996,693 -0.78% -0.46%
2029 6,210,816 22,890,335 -0.81% -0.46%
2030 6,158,806 22,781,040 -0.84% -0.48%
2031 6,106,271 22,667,327 -0.85% -0.5%
2032 6,054,057 22,549,689 -0.86% -0.52%
2033 6,001,675 22,428,721 -0.87% -0.54%
2034 5,948,975 22,302,402 -0.88% -0.56%
2035 5,896,427 22,170,689 -0.88% -0.59%
2036 5,843,557 22,034,775 -0.9% -0.61%
2037 5,790,371 21,893,029 -0.91% -0.64%
2038 5,737,870 21,746,001 -0.91% -0.67%
2039 5,685,753 21,594,236 -0.91% -0.7%
2040 5,633,818 21,436,947 -0.91% -0.73%
2041 5,582,636 21,274,187 -0.91% -0.76%
2042 5,532,405 21,105,682 -0.9% -0.79%
2043 5,483,086 20,932,105 -0.89% -0.82%
2044 5,434,397 20,754,623 -0.89% -0.85%
2045 5,386,376 20,571,741 -0.88% -0.88%
2046 5,338,852 20,384,903 -0.88% -0.91%
2047 5,291,441 20,194,425 -0.89% -0.93%
2048 5,244,419 19,999,753 -0.89% -0.96%
2049 5,197,955 19,801,293 -0.89% -0.99%
2050 5,151,745 19,598,997 -0.89% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 674,747 people (a 8.81% decline), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bulgaria lost -580,990 (a 8.32% decline), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

Bulgaria was ranked 92nd most populous country in 2005 and is 111th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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