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Number of Bulgarians Down by Estimated 1 Million in 10 years

During the 22 years of the so-called transition period in Bulgaria, after the fall of the Communist regime in 1989, about 22 000 have emigrated from the country each year.

The data comes from preliminary results of the Census in Bulgaria, conducted by the National Statistics Institute, NSI, from February 1 to February 28.

Data collected up to February 22, shows the number of Bulgarians living in the country is down by 1 220 000 since 2001, the Bulgarian daily Monitor writes Wednesday, pointing out NSI experts warn the data is not yet precise.

According to the latest data, currently 7 563 710 people live in the country, but comments on the dimensions of the demographic crisis and the emigration would be able to be made with accuracy in the beginning of April when the first results will be summarized.

The nation is shrinking by 40 000 a year only because the number of deaths surpasses the number of births.

Regarding emigration, exact data is expected in several months when all Bulgarians living in EU Member States will be accounted for, but this would still not include the large numbers living outside Europe, particularly in the US and Canada.

An estimated 196 000 have left the country between 1999 and 2001, but 19 000 have returned.

Nearly 169 200 Bulgarians live and work in Spain, according to data from the Ministry of Social Policy and Labour. There are 2.34 million foreigners in Spain, topped by Romanians - nearly 830 000. Bulgarians make only 3% of the foreign workers in Spain and rank 9th (according to the Bulgarian address registry) or 8th (according to the Spanish statistics) by their numbers, behind the UK, Germany, and Italy.

About 120 000 live in neighbouring Greece and 70 000 of them are permanent residents.

There are also 70 000 Bulgarians in Cyprus and another 70 000 in Great Britain and Ireland. An additional 30 to 40 000 are migrant workers travelling between Bulgaria and the UK depending on the labour market.

53 084 Bulgarians live in Germany.

We want Communism again!
РОССИЯ НАВСЕГДА!

The net amount of Brits leaving the UK in the past ten years would probably be in the region of a million people. If the UK pensions where more in keeping with the cost of living in Britain they would have undoubtedly not been nearly that figure leaving!! Roll on the summer, never got much of those over there either!

АзСъмОтБългария wrote:

We want Communism again!
РОССИЯ НАВСЕГДА!

Nu da, konechno, tochno to chto nam nado seichas

George can you say that again in English, other members have been asked to use English as well as any other language, I for one don't know what it is your saying

scott wrote:

George can you say that again in English, other members have been asked to use English as well as any other language, I for one don't know what it is your saying

No problem, it means: "
yes, of course, that is exactly what we need now"
(meant ironically)

coriolanus wrote:

АзСъмОтБългария wrote:

We want Communism again!
РОССИЯ НАВСЕГДА!

Nu da, konechno, tochno to chto nam nado seichas

Other people have been told in your absence that this is an English forum. We have no objection to Bulgarian being used provided there is an English translation. Please edit this post accordingly and when using Bulgarian in future translate. Sorry about this but our rules apply to all on here.

Tony

(Mod hat on)

Posted after translation. But left as a reminder to all users.

Looks like George beat you to it Tony

Daisy wrote:

Looks like George beat you to it Tony

He did that. So I edited mine accordingly thank you Daisy. We must be seen to be fair.

tonyb60 wrote:

Daisy wrote:

Looks like George beat you to it Tony

He did that. So I edited mine accordingly thank you Daisy. We must be seen to be fair.

:Sunny:BTW, Tony, it was Russian, not Bulgarian

No matter its all Greek anyway.

What about the Greek?It's very different,we stole from them 2 letters,only this :) Ф п

tonyb60 wrote:

No matter its all Greek anyway.

Not to Greeks

coriolanus wrote:

АзСъмОтБългария wrote:

We want Communism again!
РОССИЯ НАВСЕГДА!

Nu da, konechno, tochno to chto nam nado seichas

Хороший комментарий,товарищ!

АзСъмОтБългария wrote:

coriolanus wrote:

АзСъмОтБългария wrote:

We want Communism again!
РОССИЯ НАВСЕГДА!

Nu da, konechno, tochno to chto nam nado seichas

Хороший комментарий,товарищ!

Watch out! You run the risk of being sanctioned for not writing in English