On 21 June, the UN's Population Division released the twenty-fifth round of official United Nations population estimates and projections, which have been prepared since 1951 by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.
Fifty-one countries or areas are projected to undergo a reduction in population size between 2017 and 2050. For ten countries or areas, populations are expected to decrease by more than 15 per cent by 2050: Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine and the United States Virgin Islands.
According to the National Statistical Institute, there are 7,152,000 people living in Bulgaria.According to a UN report, however, over the next three decades, population in Bulgaria will fall by two million and by the end of the century at least additional one and a half million.
Political Analysis by Plamen Asenov.
