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

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

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Bulgaria	Turkey	Bulgaria	Turkey
1960	7,867,374	28,329,898	-	-
1961	7,943,118	29,119,238	0.96%	2.79%
1962	8,012,946	29,916,147	0.88%	2.74%
1963	8,078,145	30,726,841	0.81%	2.71%
1964	8,144,340	31,543,072	0.82%	2.66%
1965	8,204,168	32,345,220	0.73%	2.54%
1966	8,258,057	33,177,672	0.66%	2.57%
1967	8,310,226	34,050,421	0.63%	2.63%
1968	8,369,603	34,921,684	0.71%	2.56%
1969	8,434,172	35,787,774	0.77%	2.48%
1970	8,489,574	36,638,465	0.66%	2.38%
1971	8,536,395	37,518,611	0.55%	2.4%
1972	8,576,200	38,430,221	0.47%	2.43%
1973	8,620,967	39,329,533	0.52%	2.34%
1974	8,678,745	40,210,234	0.67%	2.24%
1975	8,720,742	41,053,126	0.48%	2.1%
1976	8,758,599	41,899,984	0.43%	2.06%
1977	8,804,183	42,773,298	0.52%	2.08%
1978	8,814,032	43,645,306	0.11%	2.04%
1979	8,825,940	44,510,429	0.14%	1.98%
1980	8,861,535	45,408,815	0.4%	2.02%
1981	8,891,117	46,321,190	0.33%	2.01%
1982	8,917,457	47,322,096	0.3%	2.16%
1983	8,939,738	48,447,410	0.25%	2.38%
1984	8,960,679	49,574,069	0.23%	2.33%
1985	8,960,547	50,687,115	-0.001%	2.25%
1986	8,958,171	51,777,772	-0.03%	2.15%
1987	8,971,359	52,843,670	0.15%	2.06%
1988	8,981,446	53,909,626	0.11%	2.02%
1989	8,876,972	54,976,723	-1.16%	1.98%
1990	8,718,289	56,015,628	-1.79%	1.89%
1991	8,632,367	57,009,887	-0.99%	1.77%
1992	8,540,164	57,990,118	-1.07%	1.72%
1993	8,472,313	58,999,167	-0.79%	1.74%
1994	8,443,591	60,033,836	-0.34%	1.75%
1995	8,406,067	61,024,503	-0.44%	1.65%
1996	8,362,826	61,951,134	-0.51%	1.52%
1997	8,312,068	62,852,966	-0.61%	1.46%
1998	8,256,786	63,734,383	-0.67%	1.4%
1999	8,210,624	64,591,923	-0.56%	1.35%
2000	8,170,172	65,425,961	-0.49%	1.29%
2001	8,009,142	66,245,128	-1.97%	1.25%
2002	7,837,161	67,048,795	-2.15%	1.21%
2003	7,775,327	67,831,730	-0.79%	1.17%
2004	7,716,860	68,592,617	-0.75%	1.12%
2005	7,658,972	69,329,557	-0.75%	1.07%
2006	7,601,022	70,045,349	-0.76%	1.03%
2007	7,545,338	70,158,112	-0.73%	0.16%
2008	7,492,561	71,051,678	-0.7%	1.27%
2009	7,444,443	72,039,206	-0.64%	1.39%
2010	7,395,599	73,142,150	-0.66%	1.53%
2011	7,348,328	74,223,629	-0.64%	1.48%
2012	7,305,888	75,175,827	-0.58%	1.28%
2013	7,160,005	76,147,624	-2%	1.29%
2014	7,073,572	77,181,884	-1.21%	1.36%
2015	6,984,225	78,218,479	-1.26%	1.34%
2016	6,894,139	79,277,962	-1.29%	1.35%
2017	6,803,468	80,312,698	-1.32%	1.31%
2018	6,710,798	81,407,204	-1.36%	1.36%
2019	6,616,726	82,579,440	-1.4%	1.44%
2020	6,550,696	83,384,680	-1%	0.98%
2021	6,507,301	84,147,318	-0.66%	0.91%
2022	6,465,097	84,979,913	-0.65%	0.99%
2023	6,446,596	85,325,965	-0.29%	0.41%
2024	6,444,366	85,518,661	-0.03%	0.23%
2025	6,403,235	85,725,557	-0.64%	0.24%
2026	6,358,515	85,960,835	-0.7%	0.27%
2027	6,310,991	86,227,115	-0.75%	0.31%
2028	6,261,580	86,502,744	-0.78%	0.32%
2029	6,210,816	86,771,652	-0.81%	0.31%
2030	6,158,806	87,037,680	-0.84%	0.31%
2031	6,106,271	87,297,191	-0.85%	0.3%
2032	6,054,057	87,537,075	-0.86%	0.27%
2033	6,001,675	87,762,403	-0.87%	0.26%
2034	5,948,975	87,974,138	-0.88%	0.24%
2035	5,896,427	88,172,739	-0.88%	0.23%
2036	5,843,557	88,364,318	-0.9%	0.22%
2037	5,790,371	88,545,669	-0.91%	0.21%
2038	5,737,870	88,707,268	-0.91%	0.18%
2039	5,685,753	88,849,956	-0.91%	0.16%
2040	5,633,818	88,975,510	-0.91%	0.14%
2041	5,582,636	89,083,304	-0.91%	0.12%
2042	5,532,405	89,177,769	-0.9%	0.11%
2043	5,483,086	89,254,147	-0.89%	0.09%
2044	5,434,397	89,311,458	-0.89%	0.06%
2045	5,386,376	89,349,806	-0.88%	0.04%
2046	5,338,852	89,375,429	-0.88%	0.03%
2047	5,291,441	89,383,765	-0.89%	0.009%
2048	5,244,419	89,361,174	-0.89%	-0.03%
2049	5,197,955	89,306,566	-0.89%	-0.06%
2050	5,151,745	89,218,346	-0.89%	-0.1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bulgaria decreased by 674,747 people (a 8.81% decline), while Turkey gained 8,888,922 people (a 12.8% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bulgaria lost -580,990 (a 8.32% decline), while Turkey's population increased by 7,696,071 (a 9.84% growth).

Bulgaria was ranked 92nd most populous country in 2005 and is 111th in 2025. Turkey was ranked 18th in 2005 and still ranked 18th 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 Turkey will increase by 3.85% to 89,218,346 people and rank change from 18th to 19th.