Editing Demographics of Bulgaria (section)

=== Teenage pregnancy ===

Bulgaria has one of the highest share of teenage pregnancy in Europe. Nevertheless, this number declined rapidly between 1995 and 2010, until it stabilized at around 10%.

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!colspan=19 | Number of teenage mothers in Bulgaria in the period 1990-2024<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|title=Live births by districts, municipalities and mother's age|publisher=National Statistical Institute|url=https://nsi.bg/en/content/2965/live-births-districts-municipalities-and-mother%E2%80%99s-age}}</ref>
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! style="width:140pt; align="left"| Year || 1990 || 1995 || 2000 || 2005 || 2010 || 2015 || 2017 || 2020 || 2021 || 2022 || 2023 || 2024
|-
| All live births in Bulgaria || 105,180 || 71,967 || 73,679 || 69,886 || 75,513 || 65,950 || 63,955 || 59,086 || 58,678 || 56,596 || 57,197 || 53,428
|-
|  '''Mothers aged under twenty''' || '''22,518''' || '''16,278''' || '''12,787''' || '''10,625''' || '''8,411''' || '''6,274''' || '''6,038''' || '''5,970''' || '''5,861''' || '''5,769''' || '''5,820''' || '''5,819'''
|-
| Share of teenage mothers || {{increase}} 21.4% || {{increase}}22.6% || {{decrease}} 17.4% || {{decrease}} 15.2% || {{decrease}} 11.1% || {{decrease}} 9.5% ||{{decrease}} 9.4% ||{{increase}} 10.1%  ||{{decrease}} 10.0% || {{increase}} 10.2% || {{steady}} 10.2% || {{increase}} 10.9%
|}

The ten municipalities with the largest absolute number of teenage mothers for 2022 are: [[Sliven]] (371), [[Sofia]] (345), [[Plovdiv]] (196), [[Pazardzhik]] (130), [[Yambol]] (123), [[Nova Zagora]] (121), [[Burgas]] (108), [[Pleven]] (110), [[Tvarditsa, Sliven Province|Tvarditsa]] (98), [[Stara Zagora]], [[Varna, Bulgaria|Varna]] (83) and [[Haskovo]] (81).<ref name="auto1"/>

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! colspan=19 | Top ten municipalities with the highest share of mothers aged under twenty (2022)<ref name="auto1"/>
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! Municipality !! All live births || Births to mothers aged under twenty || % of all live births
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| style="text-align:right; | [[Gurkovo|Gurkovo Municipality]]  || style="text-align:right; | 54|| style="text-align:right; | 25|| 46.3%
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| style="text-align:right; | [[Simeonovgrad Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 78 || style="text-align:right; | 33 || 43.3%
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| style="text-align:right; | [[Ugarchin Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 75|| style="text-align:right; | 32 || 42.7%
|-
| style="text-align:right; | [[Yablanitsa Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 99 || style="text-align:right; | 40 || 40.4%
|-
| style="text-align:right; | [[Tvarditsa, Sliven Province|Tvarditsa Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 243 || style="text-align:right; | 98|| 40.4%
|-
| style="text-align:right; | [[Kaynardzha Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 63 || style="text-align:right; | 25 || 39.7%
|-
| style="text-align:right; | [[Straldzha|Straldzha Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 127 || style="text-align:right; | 47 || 37.0%
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| style="text-align:right; | [[Maglizh|Maglizh Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 101 || style="text-align:right; | 36 || 35.6%
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| style="text-align:right; | [[Sredets Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 118 || style="text-align:right; | 41 || 34.7%
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| style="text-align:right; | [[Nova Zagora Municipality]] || style="text-align:right; | 371 || style="text-align:right; | 121 || 32.6%
|}