Bulgaria 
Facts
Population:
7,707,495 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
15.11% (male 597,765; female 567,030)
15-64 years:
68.17% (male 2,588,805; female 2,665,736)
65 years and over:
16.72% (male 543,665; female 744,494) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
-1.14% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
8.06 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
14.53 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-4.9 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.73 male(s)/female
total population:
0.94 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
14.65 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
71.2 years
male:
67.72 years
female:
74.89 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.13 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.01% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Bulgarian(s)
adjective:
Bulgarian
Ethnic groups:
Bulgarian 83%, Turk 8.5%, Roma 2.6%, Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Gagauz, Circassian, others (1998)
Religions:
Bulgarian Orthodox 83.5%, Muslim 13%, Roman Catholic 1.5%, Uniate Catholic 0.2%, Jewish 0.8%, Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other 1% (1998)
Languages:
Bulgarian, secondary languages closely correspond to ethnic breakdown
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
98%
male:
99%
female:
98% (1999)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $48 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $6,200 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
15%
industry:
29%
services:
56% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
35% (2000 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.4%
highest 10%:
22.5% (1995)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
10.4% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
3.83 million (2000 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 26%, industry 31%, services 43% (1998 est.)
Unemployment rate:
17.7% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$4.85 billion
expenditures:
$4.92 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
electricity, gas and water; food, beverages and tobacco; machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined petroleum, nuclear fuel
Industrial production growth rate:
10.8% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
36.217 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
51.52%
hydro:
8.35%
nuclear:
40.12%
other:
0.01% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
33.182 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
2.2 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
1.7 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
vegetables, fruits, tobacco, livestock, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets
Exports:
$4.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels
Exports - partners:
Italy 14%, Turkey 10%, Germany 9%, Greece 8%, Yugoslavia 8%, Belgium 6%, France 5%, US 4% (2000)
Imports:
$5.9 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
fuels, minerals, and raw materials; machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics; food, textiles
Imports - partners:
Russia 24%, Germany 14%, Italy 8%, Greece 5%, France 5%, Romania 4%, Turkey 3%, US 3% (2000)
Debt - external:
$10.4 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$1 billion (1999 est.)
Currency:
lev (BGL)
Currency code:
BGL
Exchange rates:
leva per US dollar - 2.0848 (January 2001), 2.1233 (2000), 1.8364 (1999), 1,760.36 (1998), 1,681.88 (1997), 177.89 (1996)
note:
on 5 July 1999, the lev was redenominated; the post-5 July 1999 lev is equal to 1,000 of the pre-5 July 1999 lev
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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168 Tchasa
(Independent weekly), Sofia
24 Tchasa
(Independent), Sofia
(Independent business weekly), Sofia
http://www.banker.bg
(English online publication), Sofia
http://www.bgnewsnet.com/
(Official news service), Sofia
http://www.bta.bg
(German-language),
http://www.online.bg/wb/
Bulgarska Armia
(Government owned daily),
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The European Union is rubbing some people in Eastern Europe the wrong way. In a commentary for the pro-government Vjesnik (Oct. 31) of Zagreb, Maja Freundlich accuses the EU of plotting to return Croatia to Yugoslavia.
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