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== Ethnic groups == {| class="wikitable" |+'''Population of Bulgaria according to ethnic group 1900–1956''' |- style="background:#e0e0e0;" ! rowspan="2" style="width:160pt;" | Ethnic group ! colspan="2" | census 1900 ! colspan="2" | census 1905 ! colspan="2" | census 1910 ! colspan="2" | census 1920 ! colspan="2" | census 1926 ! colspan="2" | census 1934 ! colspan="2" | census 1946 ! colspan="2" | census 1956 |- style="background:#e0e0e0;" ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% |- | [[Bulgarians in Bulgaria|Bulgarians]]<ref name="1900-2011">{{cite web| url = http://censusresults.nsi.bg/Census/Reports/1/2/R7.aspx| title = Население по местоживеене, пол и етническа група| trans-title = Population by place of residence, sex and ethnic group| website = Censusresults.nsi.bg| language = bg| date = 1900–2011| access-date = 27 January 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170530153208/http://censusresults.nsi.bg/Census/Reports/1/2/R7.aspx| archive-date = 30 May 2017| url-status = dead}}</ref> | style="text-align:right;"| 2,888,219 | style="text-align:right;"| 77.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,203,810 | style="text-align:right;"| 79.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,518,756 | style="text-align:right;"| 81.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 4,036,056 | style="text-align:right;"| 83.3 | style="text-align:right;"| 4,557,706 | style="text-align:right;"| 83.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 5,204,217 | style="text-align:right;"| 85.6 | style="text-align:right;"| 5,903,580 | style="text-align:right;"| 84.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 6,506,541 | style="text-align:right;"| 85.5 |- | [[Bulgarian Turks|Turks]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"| 531,240 | style="text-align:right;"| 14.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 488,010 | style="text-align:right;"| 12.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 465,641 | style="text-align:right;"| 10.7 | style="text-align:right;"| 520,339 | style="text-align:right;"| 10.7 | style="text-align:right;"| 577,552 | style="text-align:right;"| 10.5 | style="text-align:right;"| 591,193 | style="text-align:right;"| 9.7 | style="text-align:right;"| 675,500 | style="text-align:right;"| 9.6 | style="text-align:right;"| 656,025 | style="text-align:right;"| 8.6 |- | [[Romani people in Bulgaria|Roma]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"| 89,549 | style="text-align:right;"| 2.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 99,004 | style="text-align:right;"| 2.5 | style="text-align:right;"| 122,296 | style="text-align:right;"| 2.8 | style="text-align:right;"| 98,451 | style="text-align:right;"| 2.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 134,844 | style="text-align:right;"| 2.5 | style="text-align:right;"| 149,385 | style="text-align:right;"| 2.5 | style="text-align:right;"| 170,011 | style="text-align:right;"| 2.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 197,865<sup>'''1'''</sup> | style="text-align:right;"| 2.6 |- | [[Romanians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 71,063 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 75,773 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 79,429 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.8 | style="text-align:right;"| 57,312 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 69,080 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 16,504 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 | style="text-align:right;"| 2,459 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,749 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 |- | [[Greeks in Bulgaria|Greeks]] | style="text-align:right;"| 66,635 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.8 | style="text-align:right;"| 63,487 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.6 | style="text-align:right;"| 43,275 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 42,074 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 10,564 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 9,601 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,623 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 7,437 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- | [[Jews]] | style="text-align:right;"| 33,661 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 37,663 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 40,133 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 43,209 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 46,558 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.8 | style="text-align:right;"| 48,565 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.8 | style="text-align:right;"| 44,209 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.6 | style="text-align:right;"| 6,027 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- | [[Tatars]] | style="text-align:right;"| 18,884 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.5 | style="text-align:right;"| 17,942 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 18,228 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 4,905 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 6,191 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| 8,133 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 5,993 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- | [[Armenians in Bulgaria|Armenians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 14,581 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 14,178 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 12,932 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 | style="text-align:right;"| 11,509 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 27,332 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.5 | style="text-align:right;"| 25,963 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 21,637 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 | style="text-align:right;"| 21,954 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 |- | [[Gagauzes]] | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| 10,175 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 | style="text-align:right;"| 9,329 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,669 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 4,362 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| |- | [[Sarakatsani]]<sup>'''3'''</sup> | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 6,128 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | 7,251 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | 3,075 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.1 | style="text-align:right;" | 2,866 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.0 | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 2,085 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.0 |- | [[Russians in Bulgaria|Russians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 1,685 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,275 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 2,505 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 9,080 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 19,706 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 11,928 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 13,200 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 10,551 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- | [[Ethnic Macedonians in Bulgaria|Macedonians]]<ref>Georgeoff, Peter John (with David Crowe), "National Minorities in Bulgaria, 1919– 1980" in Horak, Stephen, ed., Eastern European National Minorities 1919/1980: A Handbook, (Littleton, Co: Libraries Limited, Inc.).</ref> | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 169,544<sup>'''2'''</sup> | style="text-align:right;"| 2.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 187,789<sup>'''2'''</sup> | style="text-align:right;"| 2.5 |- | Others | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | | style="text-align:right;" | 15,602 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | 13,199 | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 |- | Undeclared | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | style="text-align:right;"| - |- style="background:#e0e0e0;" ! style="text-align:left;"| Total ! colspan="2" | 3,744,283 ! colspan="2" | 4,035,575 ! colspan="2" | 4,337,513 ! colspan="2" | 4,846,971 ! colspan="2" | 5,528,741 ! colspan="2" | 6,077,939 ! colspan="2" | 7,029,349 ! colspan="2" | 7,613,709 |- | colspan="27" |{{smalldiv|1=<sup>'''1'''</sup> According to x files of the state, the number of the Romani was reduced by 25,000 in 1956.<ref name="NUMBER OF ROMA">{{cite book|last1=Ilieva|first1=Nadezhda|url=http://geoproblems.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/2012_34/5_ilieva.pdf|title=NUMBER OF ROMA ETHNIC GROUP IN BULGARIA FROM THE LIBERATION TO THE BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY (BASED ON REGULAR CENSUSES) (Part 1)|date=2012|location=Bulgarian Academy of Sciences|pages=74–75}}</ref> <sup>'''2'''</sup> In the 1946 and the 1956 census, the population of Pirin Macedonia was forced to list as ethnic Macedonians by the [[People's Republic of Bulgaria|Communist government]] in preparation of a planned federation between the [[People's Republic of Bulgaria]] and [[Socialist Yugoslavia]], with "United Macedonia" as the connecting piece. The deal fell through, and the policy was eventually reversed in 1958.<ref name="Rotschild">{{cite book | last=v | first=Joseph | title=The Communist Party of Bulgaria; Origins and Development, 1883–1936 | publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] | page=126 }}</ref><ref name="Cook">{{cite book | last=A. Cook | first=Bernard | title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia | publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] | year=2001 | page=810 | isbn=978-0-8153-4058-4 }}</ref> <sup>'''3'''</sup> Note that the distinction between [[Sarakatsani]] and Greeks, and between Vlachs and both Aromanians and Romanians, is fluid. Sarakatsani were counted as Greeks in the 1900, 1920, 1926, 1934, and 1965 censuses.}} |} [[File:Bulgaria ethnic map.svg|thumb|right|upright=1.8|Ethnic structure of the entire population (7,364,570) by most detailed cadastral division according to the 2011 census]] [[File:2011_Ethnic_Map_at_Settlement_Level.png|thumb|right|upright=3.0|Settlement Level Ethnic Map of Bulgaria Based on the 2011 Census]] {| class="wikitable" |+'''Population of Bulgaria according to ethnic group 1965-2001''' |- style="background:#e0e0e0;" ! rowspan="2" |Ethnic group ! colspan="2" | census 1965 ! colspan="2" | census 1975 ! colspan="2" | census 1985<sup>1</sup> ! colspan="2" | census 1992<ref name="EU">{{cite web|title=6.1 European population committee (The demographic characteristics of the main ethnic/national minorities in Bulgaria)|url=https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=429995&Site=COE|publisher=Council of Europe}}</ref> ! colspan="2" | census 2001<ref>{{cite web|date=1 March 2001|title=НАСЕЛЕНИЕ КЪМ 1 March 2001 Г. ПО ОБЛАСТИ И ЕТНИЧЕСКА ГРУПА (Inhabitants as at 1 March 2001 by province and ethnic group)|url=http://www.nsi.bg/Census/Ethnos.htm|website=Nsi.bg}}</ref> |- ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% ! style="width:50pt;"|Number ! style="width:15pt;"|% |- |style="width:160pt;"|[[Bulgarians]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"| 7,231,243 | style="text-align:right;"| 87.9 | style="text-align:right;"| 7,930,024 | style="text-align:right;"| 90.9 | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| 7,271,185 | style="text-align:right;"| 85.7 | style="text-align:right;"| 6,655,210 | style="text-align:right;"| 83.9 |- | style="text-align:left;"|[[Bulgarian Turks|Turks]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"| 780,928 | style="text-align:right;"| 9.5 | style="text-align:right;"| 730,728 | style="text-align:right;"| 8.4 | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| 800,052 | style="text-align:right;"| 9.4 | style="text-align:right;"| 746,664 | style="text-align:right;"| 9.4 |- | style="text-align:left;"|[[Romani people in Bulgaria|Roma]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"| 148,874<sup>'''2'''</sup> | style="text-align:right;"| 1.8 | style="text-align:right;"| 18,323<sup>'''2'''</sup> | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| 313,396 | style="text-align:right;"| 3.7 | style="text-align:right;"| 370,908 | style="text-align:right;"| 4.7 |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Armenians in Bulgaria|Armenians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 20,282 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 14,526 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | | | style="text-align:right;"| 13,677 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 10,832 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"|[[Russians in Bulgaria|Russians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 10,815 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 17,139 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| 15,595 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 |- | style="text-align:left;"| "Vlachs"{{small|([[Aromanians in Bulgaria|Aromanians]] and [[Romanians in Bulgaria|Romanians]])}} | | | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 5,159 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 10,566 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Sarakatsani]]<sup>'''3'''</sup> | | | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 5,144 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 4,107 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- | [[Ukrainians]] | | | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 1,864 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 2,489 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| [[Ethnic Macedonians in Bulgaria|Macedonians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 9,632 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 10,803 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 5,071 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 |- |[[Greeks in Bulgaria|Greeks]] | style="text-align:right;"| 8,241 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 4,930 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,408 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 |- |[[Jews]] | style="text-align:right;"| 5,108 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 3,076 | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 3,461 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 1,363 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 |- |[[Romanians]] | | | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 2,491 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 1,088 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 |- | [[Tatars]] | style="text-align:right;"| 6,430 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 5,963 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | | | style="text-align:right;"| 4,515 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 1,803 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 |- |[[Gagauz people|Gagauzes]] | | | | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 1,478 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"| 540 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 |- |Others | | | style="text-align:right;"| 25,131 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 | | | style="text-align:right;"| 23,542 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 | style="text-align:right;"| 12,342 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 |- |Undeclared | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 8,481 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.1 | style="text-align:right;"| 62,108 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.8 |- |Unshown | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | | | | style="text-align:right;"| 0 | | style="text-align:right;"| 24,807 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.3 |- style="background:#e0e0e0;" ! style="text-align:left;"| Total ! colspan="2" |8,227,966 ! colspan="2" |8,727,771 ! colspan="2" |8,948,649 ! colspan="2" |8,487,317 ! colspan="2" |7,932,984 |- | colspan="13" | {{smalldiv|1=<sup>'''1'''</sup>No data collected about ethnic group in 1985 census. <sup>'''2'''</sup> There are strong indications that the number of ethnic Romani in the 1965 and 1975 census was manipulated. <sup>'''3'''</sup> Note that the distinction between [[Sarakatsani]] and Greeks, and between Vlachs and both Aromanians and Romanians, is fluid. Sarakatsani were counted as Greeks in the 1900, 1920, 1926, 1934, and 1965 censuses.}} |} {| class="wikitable" |+'''Population of Bulgaria according to ethnic group 2011-2021''' ! rowspan="2" |Ethnic group ! colspan="3" |census 2011<ref name="1900-2011" /> ! colspan="3" |census 2021<ref name="Infostat">{{cite web | title=Population by Ethnic Group, Statistical Regions, Districts and Municipalities as of 07/09/2021|author=National Statistical Institute|year=2022|language=en|url=https://infostat.nsi.bg/infostat/pages/reports/result.jsf?x_2=2025}}</ref><ref name="NSI3">{{cite web | title=Ethno-Cultural Characteristics of the Bulgarian Population as at 7 September 2021|author=National Statistical Institute|date=24 November 2022|language=bg|url=https://nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pressreleases/Census2021_ethnos.pdf}}</ref> |- ! style="width:35pt;"|Number ! style="width:6pt;"|% ! style="width:6pt;"|{{font color|red|(%)<sup>1</sup>}} ! style="width:35pt;"|Number ! style="width:6pt;"|% ! style="width:6pt;"|{{font color|red|(%)<sup>1</sup>}} |- | style="width:160pt;"|[[Bulgarians]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"| 5,664,624 | style="text-align:right;"| 76.92 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(85.47)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 5,118,494 | style="text-align:right;"|78.51 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(85.70)}} |- |[[Bulgarian Turks|Turks]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"| 588,318 | style="text-align:right;"|7.99 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(8.88)}} | style="text-align:right;"|508,378 | style="text-align:right;"|7.80 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(8.51)}} |- |[[Romani people in Bulgaria|Roma]]<ref name="1900-2011" /> | style="text-align:right;"|325,343 | style="text-align:right;"| 4.42 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(4.91)}} | style="text-align:right;"|266,720 | style="text-align:right;"|4.09 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(4.47)}} |- |[[Russians in Bulgaria|Russians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 9,978 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.14 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.15)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 14,218 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.22 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.24)}} |- |[[Armenians in Bulgaria|Armenians]] | style="text-align:right;"|6,552 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.09 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.10)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 5,306 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.08 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.09)}} |- |"Vlachs" | style="text-align:right;"| 3,684 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.05 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.06)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 1,643 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.03 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.03)}} |- |[[Sarakatsani]] | style="text-align:right;"| 2,556 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.03 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.04)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 2,071 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.03 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.03)}} |- |[[Ukrainians]] | style="text-align:right;"| 1,789 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.02 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.03)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 3,239 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.05 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.05)}} |- |[[Ethnic Macedonians in Bulgaria|Macedonians]] | style="text-align:right;"|1,654 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.02 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.02)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 1,143 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.02 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.02)}} |- |[[Greeks in Bulgaria|Greeks]] | style="text-align:right;"| 1,379 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.02 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.02)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 1,625 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.02 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.02)}} |- |[[Jews]] | style="text-align:right;"| 1,162 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.02 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.02)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 1,153 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.02 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.02)}} |- |[[Romanians]] | style="text-align:right;"|891 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.01 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.01)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 683 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.01 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.01)}} |- |[[Tatars]] | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| 1,129 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.2 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.02)}} |- |[[Gagauz people|Gagauzes]] | style="text-align:right;"| 40 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.0 | style="text-align:right;"|{{font color|red|(0.00)}} | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| | style="text-align:right;"| |- |Others | style="text-align:right;"| 19,659 | style="text-align:right;"| 0.27 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.30)}} | style="text-align:right;"| 46,796<sup>2</sup> | style="text-align:right;"| 0.62 | style="text-align:right;"| {{font color|red|(0.78)}} |- |Undeclared | style="text-align:right;"| 736,981 | style="text-align:right;"| 10.00 | style="text-align:right;"|- | style="text-align:right;"|79,513 | style="text-align:right;"| 1.22 | style="text-align:right;"| - |- | style="text-align:left; background:#DCDCDC;"| No return/Data borrowed<br>from administrative sources | style="text-align:right; background:#DCDCDC;"| - | style="text-align:right; background:#DCDCDC;"| - | style="text-align:center; background:#DCDCDC;"|- | style="text-align:right; background:#DCDCDC;"|467,678 | style="text-align:right; background:#DCDCDC;"| 7.1 | style="text-align:center; background:#DCDCDC;"| - |- ! style="text-align:left;"| Total ! colspan="3" |7,364,570 ! colspan="3" |6,519,789 |- | colspan="13" |<small><sup>'''1'''</sup> Percentages in parentheses are calculated only based on the number of people who answered the ethnicity question (6,680,980 for 2011 and 6,052,111 for 2021) and do not cover people whose data has been collected from administrative databases.<br><sup>'''2'''</sup>Includes, among other things, 2,894 Englishmen, 865 Italians, 824 Poles, etc. etc.</small> |} <br> The following table shows the ethnic composition of all Provinces of Bulgaria according to the 2021 census: {{Table alignment}} {| class="wikitable sortable defaultright col1left"" |+ Ethnic Affiliation in Bulgaria by Province in 2021<ref name="Infostat"/><ref name="NSI4">{{cite web | title=Ethno-Cultural Characteristics of the Bulgarian Population as at 7 September 2021|author=National Statistical Institute|date=24 November 2022|language=bg|pages=13|url=https://nsi.bg/sites/default/files/files/pressreleases/Census2021_ethnos.pdf}}</ref> |- ! rowspan="2" style="width:120pt;"|[[Provinces of Bulgaria|Province]] ! style="text-align:center; background:#FFD0C0;" colspan="2" |Bulgarian ! style="text-align:center; background:#E0F0FF;" colspan="2" |Turkish ! style="text-align:center; background:#FFD700;" colspan="2" |Romani ! style="text-align:center; background:#D8BFD8;" colspan="2" |Other ! style="text-align:center; background:#DEB887;" colspan="2" |Undeclared ! style="text-align:center; background:#808080;" colspan="2" |Unknown<sup>1, 2</sup> ! style="text-align:center" colspan="2" |Total |- ! style="width:40pt;"|Number ! style="width:8pt;" |% ! style="width:40pt;"|Number ! style="width:8pt;" |% ! style="width:40pt;"|Number ! style="width:8pt;" |% ! style="width:40pt;"|Number ! style="width:8pt;" |% ! style="width:40pt;"|Number ! style="width:8pt;" |% ! style="width:40pt;"|Number ! style="width:8pt;" |% ! style="width:40pt;"|Number ! style="width:8pt;" |% |- | [[Blagoevgrad Province]] || style="background:#FFD0C0;"|236,951 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 81.9 || 14,028 || 4.8 || 12,138 || 4.2 || 11,197 || 3.8 || 3,768 || 1.3 || 13,965 || 4.8 || 292,227 || 100.0 |- | [[Burgas Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|280,388||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 73.7 || 47,286 || 12.4|| 14,893 || 3.9|| 5,992|| 1.6 || 5,805|| 1.5 || 25,922 || 6.8 || 380,286 || 100.0 |- | [[Dobrich Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|109,041 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 72.6|| 18,835|| 12.5|| 10,118 || 6.8|| 2,035 || 1.4 || 1,304|| 1.3 || 8,813 || 5.9 ||150,146 || 100.0 |- | [[Gabrovo Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|89,394 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 90.9|| 4,723 || 4.8 || 792 || 0.8|| 735 || 0.7|| 1,068|| 1.1|| 1,675 || 1.9 || 98,387 || 100.0 |- | [[Haskovo Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|154,088||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 72.8|| 25,555|| 12.1 || 12,572|| 5.9 || 1,764 || 0.8 || 2,254 || 1.1 || 15,332|| 7.2 || 211,565 || 100.0 |- | [[Kardzhali Province]] ||37,383|| 26.5||style="background:#E0F0FF;"|83,280||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 59.0 || 1,354||1.0 || 2,130|| 1.5|| 4,909|| 3.5 || 12,121 || 8.6 || 141,177 || 100.0 |- | [[Kyustendil Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|101,735||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|91.0 || 56|| 0.0 || 6,555|| 5.9 || 329|| 0.3 ||509 || 0.5 || 2,552 || 2.3 || 111,736 || 100.0 |- | [[Lovech Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|103,484||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 88.9 || 2,789|| 2.4 || 4,999|| 4.3 || 407 ||0.3 || 2,202|| 1.9 || 2,513|| 2.2 || 116,394 || 100.0 |- | [[Montana Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|99,539||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 83.0 || 136|| 0.1 || 13,130 || 10.9|| 381|| 0.3|| 984|| 0.8 || 5,780|| 4.8 || 119,950 || 100.0 |- | [[Pazardzhik Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|184,677||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 80.4 || 6,782|| 3.0 || 14,320 || 6.2|| 4,686|| 2.0|| 2,189|| 1.0 || 17,160|| 7.5 || 229,814 || 100.0 |- | [[Pernik Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|107,459||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 94.1 || 128|| 0.1|| 3,554|| 3.1|| 388|| 0.3 || 718 || 0.6 || 1,925 || 1.7 || 114,162 ||100.0 |- | [[Pleven Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|200,197 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 88.5|| 5,367 || 2.4 || 6,999|| 3.1 || 937 || 0.4 || 1,829|| 0.8 || 10,791 || 4.8 || 226,120 || 100.0 |- | [[Plovdiv Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|513,249 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 80.9 || 39,585 || 6.2|| 26,296 || 4.1 || 5,004 || 0.8 || 8,134|| 1.3 || 42,229|| 6.7 || 634,497 || 100.0 |- | [[Razgrad Province]] ||38,873|| 37.7 || style="background:#E0F0FF;"|49,318||style="background:#E0F0FF;"| 47.8 || 5,806|| 5.6 || 1,957|| 1.9 || 1,915|| 1.9 || 5,363|| 5.2 || 103,223 || 100.0 |- | [[Ruse Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|148,845||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 76.9 || 23,958|| 12.4|| 7,041|| 3.6|| 2,060|| 1.1 || 2,315|| 1.2 || 9,264|| 4.8 || 193,483 || 100.0 |- | [[Shumen Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|81,907||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 54.1 || 44,263|| 29.2 || 11,268|| 7.4 || 2,118|| 1.4 || 1,872|| 1.2 || 10,037|| 6.6 || 151,465 || 100.0 |- | [[Silistra Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|51,579 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 52.8 || 34,392||35.7 || 5,244 || 5.4 || 694|| 0.7 ||793 || 0.8 || 5,068 || 5.2 || 97,770 || 100.0 |- | [[Sliven Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|115,607||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 66.9 || 13,217|| 7.7 || 23,918|| 13.9 || 1,861|| 1.1 ||1,691 || 1.0 || 16,396 || 9.5 || 172,690 || 100.0 |- | [[Smolyan Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|86,818|| style="background:#FFD0C0;"|90.2 || 3,049|| 3.2 || 483|| 0.5|| 3,589|| 3.7 || 1,609|| 1.7 || 736|| 0.7<sup>'''3'''</sup> || 96,284 || 100.0 |- | [[Sofia]] City ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|1,058,553||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 83.1 || 5,881|| 0.5 || 13,960|| 1.1 || 13,766|| 1.1 || 16,086 || 1.2 ||166,044 || 13.0 || 1,274,290 || 100.0 |- | [[Sofia Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|204,662|| style="background:#FFD0C0;"|88.2|| 342|| 0.1|| 11,380|| 4.9 || 742|| 0.3|| 1,459|| 0.6 || 13,404 || 5.8 || 231,989 || 100.0 |- | [[Stara Zagora Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|239,770||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 80.9|| 12,170|| 4.1 || 18,158 || 6.1 || 2,465|| 0.8 || 2,929|| 1.0 || 21,015 || 7.1 || 296,507 || 100.0 |- | [[Targovishte Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|46,455 ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 47.3 || 34,279|| 34.9|| 5,980|| 6.1|| 2,828|| 2.9 || 2,091 || 2.1|| 6,061|| 6.2 || 98,144 || 100.0 |- | [[Varna Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|352,886||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 81.6 || 25,678|| 5.9 || 9,634|| 2.2|| 7,664|| 1.8 || 6,187|| 1.4 || 30,149|| 7.0 || 432,198 || 100.0 |- | [[Veliko Tarnovo Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|178,491|| style="background:#FFD0C0;"|86.1 || 11,348|| 5.5|| 3,655|| 1.8|| 1,652|| 0.8 || 2,314 || 1.1 || 9,911|| 4.8 || 207,371 || 100.0 |- | [[Vidin Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|68,143|| style="background:#FFD0C0;"|90.4 || 65|| 0.0|| 5,055|| 6.7 || 345|| 0.5|| 306 || 0.4 || 1,494|| 2.0 || 75,408 || 100.0 |- | [[Vratsa Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|137,587||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 90.0 || 424|| 0.3 || 10,132 || 6.6|| 444|| 0.3 || 1,629|| 1.1 || 2,587|| 1.7 || 152,813 || 100.0 |- | [[Yambol Province]] ||style="background:#FFD0C0;"|90,733||style="background:#FFD0C0;"| 82.7 || 994|| 0.9 || 7,116|| 6.5 || 836|| 0.8 || 643|| 0.6 || 9,371 || 8.5 || 109,693 || 100.0 |- ! Republic of Bulgaria||5,118,494|| 78.5 || 508,378||7.8|| 266,720|| 4.1 || 79,006|| 1.2 || 79,513 || 1.2 || 467,678|| 7.2 || 6,519,789 || 100.0 |- | colspan="17" |<div style="font-size:86%; line-height: 1.3em;"> {{smalldiv|1=<sup>'''1'''</sup> The category pertains to citizens whose data has been collected from administrative databases.<br><sup>'''2'''</sup> The online stage of the 2021 Census was subjected to repeated DDoS attacks.<ref>Capital Daily: The €1.3 million online stage of the Census is facing failure due to DDoS attack. 11 September 2021, url: https://www.capital.bg/politika_i_ikonomika/bulgaria/2021/09/11/4252021_elektronnoto_prebroiavane_za_25_mln_lv_e_pred_proval/</ref> As a result, much fewer citizens than expected, especially in major urban areas, were able to take the online census, and the number of hired census assessors proved inadequate to ensure full census coverage in most major cities. Thus, the [[City of Sofia]] had a record-high number of no returns, 166,044, or 35.5% of the country total, despite being home to only 19.5% of the population.<br><sup>'''3'''</sup> The province with most missing returns for 2011 (21.7%), [[Smolyan Province|Smolyan]], had record-high participation in 2021, with only 736 or 0.7% missing returns.<ref name="NSI4"/>}}</div> |}
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