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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bulgaria was 6,444,366 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bulgaria's population is 6,403,235 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 11.2 times bigger than Bulgaria's.
  • Bulgaria is ranked the 111th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.94% of the world: 0.08% for Bulgaria vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Bulgaria has had an average growth rate of -0.95% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bulgaria has decreased from 7.66M people to 6.4M (16.4% decline), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% 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 22.9% in Thailand.

Bulgaria vs Thailand: live population counter

Bulgaria Thailand
Current population
6403235
71619867
Population rank 111/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.08% 0.87%
One net population change
3.93 hours
15.3 minutes
One birth every
9.16 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
5.19 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
16.7 hours
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change +524 +23,321
Daily growth/decline -6 -94
Annual growth/decline -2,230 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate -0.03% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 168/197 170/197

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

Bulgaria
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bulgaria Thailand Bulgaria Thailand
1960 7,867,374 26,851,747 - -
1961 7,943,118 27,650,334 0.96% 2.97%
1962 8,012,946 28,481,040 0.88% 3%
1963 8,078,145 29,342,322 0.81% 3.02%
1964 8,144,340 30,232,141 0.82% 3.03%
1965 8,204,168 31,149,337 0.73% 3.03%
1966 8,258,057 32,086,071 0.66% 3.01%
1967 8,310,226 33,037,801 0.63% 2.97%
1968 8,369,603 34,002,560 0.71% 2.92%
1969 8,434,172 34,973,782 0.77% 2.86%
1970 8,489,574 35,954,408 0.66% 2.8%
1971 8,536,395 36,937,387 0.55% 2.73%
1972 8,576,200 37,933,929 0.47% 2.7%
1973 8,620,967 38,947,787 0.52% 2.67%
1974 8,678,745 39,952,891 0.67% 2.58%
1975 8,720,742 40,940,005 0.48% 2.47%
1976 8,758,599 41,896,504 0.43% 2.34%
1977 8,804,183 42,843,974 0.52% 2.26%
1978 8,814,032 43,788,976 0.11% 2.21%
1979 8,825,940 44,718,434 0.14% 2.12%
1980 8,861,535 45,650,022 0.4% 2.08%
1981 8,891,117 46,575,855 0.33% 2.03%
1982 8,917,457 47,494,577 0.3% 1.97%
1983 8,939,738 48,423,309 0.25% 1.96%
1984 8,960,679 49,351,708 0.23% 1.92%
1985 8,960,547 50,270,753 -0.001% 1.86%
1986 8,958,171 51,177,834 -0.03% 1.8%
1987 8,971,359 52,074,105 0.15% 1.75%
1988 8,981,446 52,969,595 0.11% 1.72%
1989 8,876,972 53,848,956 -1.16% 1.66%
1990 8,718,289 54,738,329 -1.79% 1.65%
1991 8,632,367 55,637,434 -0.99% 1.64%
1992 8,540,164 56,528,834 -1.07% 1.6%
1993 8,472,313 57,408,198 -0.79% 1.56%
1994 8,443,591 58,260,854 -0.34% 1.49%
1995 8,406,067 59,098,232 -0.44% 1.44%
1996 8,362,826 59,920,064 -0.51% 1.39%
1997 8,312,068 60,724,584 -0.61% 1.34%
1998 8,256,786 61,522,630 -0.67% 1.31%
1999 8,210,624 62,299,043 -0.56% 1.26%
2000 8,170,172 63,007,815 -0.49% 1.14%
2001 8,009,142 63,651,141 -1.97% 1.02%
2002 7,837,161 64,266,437 -2.15% 0.97%
2003 7,775,327 64,868,166 -0.79% 0.94%
2004 7,716,860 65,452,047 -0.75% 0.9%
2005 7,658,972 66,017,420 -0.75% 0.86%
2006 7,601,022 66,567,687 -0.76% 0.83%
2007 7,545,338 67,102,394 -0.73% 0.8%
2008 7,492,561 67,619,830 -0.7% 0.77%
2009 7,444,443 68,121,080 -0.64% 0.74%
2010 7,395,599 68,579,447 -0.66% 0.67%
2011 7,348,328 69,007,208 -0.64% 0.62%
2012 7,305,888 69,436,098 -0.58% 0.62%
2013 7,160,005 69,845,114 -2% 0.59%
2014 7,073,572 70,216,367 -1.21% 0.53%
2015 6,984,225 70,540,795 -1.26% 0.46%
2016 6,894,139 70,859,841 -1.29% 0.45%
2017 6,803,468 71,160,187 -1.32% 0.42%
2018 6,710,798 71,376,079 -1.36% 0.3%
2019 6,616,726 71,522,271 -1.4% 0.2%
2020 6,550,696 71,641,484 -1% 0.17%
2021 6,507,301 71,727,332 -0.66% 0.12%
2022 6,465,097 71,735,329 -0.65% 0.01%
2023 6,446,596 71,702,435 -0.29% -0.05%
2024 6,444,366 71,668,011 -0.03% -0.05%
2025 6,403,235 71,619,867 -0.64% -0.07%
2026 6,358,515 71,559,621 -0.7% -0.08%
2027 6,310,991 71,488,156 -0.75% -0.1%
2028 6,261,580 71,406,996 -0.78% -0.11%
2029 6,210,816 71,316,195 -0.81% -0.13%
2030 6,158,806 71,215,017 -0.84% -0.14%
2031 6,106,271 71,104,025 -0.85% -0.16%
2032 6,054,057 70,982,286 -0.86% -0.17%
2033 6,001,675 70,847,947 -0.87% -0.19%
2034 5,948,975 70,701,651 -0.88% -0.21%
2035 5,896,427 70,540,884 -0.88% -0.23%
2036 5,843,557 70,366,496 -0.9% -0.25%
2037 5,790,371 70,180,031 -0.91% -0.26%
2038 5,737,870 69,979,034 -0.91% -0.29%
2039 5,685,753 69,763,928 -0.91% -0.31%
2040 5,633,818 69,535,003 -0.91% -0.33%
2041 5,582,636 69,288,477 -0.91% -0.35%
2042 5,532,405 69,025,348 -0.9% -0.38%
2043 5,483,086 68,748,075 -0.89% -0.4%
2044 5,434,397 68,456,533 -0.89% -0.42%
2045 5,386,376 68,150,148 -0.88% -0.45%
2046 5,338,852 67,827,309 -0.88% -0.47%
2047 5,291,441 67,489,358 -0.89% -0.5%
2048 5,244,419 67,136,737 -0.89% -0.52%
2049 5,197,955 66,767,316 -0.89% -0.55%
2050 5,151,745 66,382,732 -0.89% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 674,747 people (a 8.81% decline), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bulgaria lost -580,990 (a 8.32% decline), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Bulgaria was ranked 92nd most populous country in 2005 and is 111th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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