There are an estimated 6 million Bulgarians and over, including children from mixed marriages, living outside Bulgaria, said in an interview for Trud newspaper Petar Haralampiev, chair of the State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad.
There are Bulgarian communities in Northern Greece, in Albania there are 150,000 - 500,000 people of Bulgarian origin, in Kosovo 60,000 – 200,000, in Romania 50,000 – 200,000, in Ukraine – 210,000 people officially registered as being Bulgarian during the 2002 census. There are more than 200,000 Bulgarians in Chicago, USA, and the environs. According to unofficial data from different official Bulgarian sources, 2.3 – 3 million people have left Bulgaria in the post-1989 period alone. The other group are Bulgarians from what are known as the “traditional migrant communities”, people who emigrated in the first half of the 20th century. There are around 50,000 people of Bulgarian descent in Argentina, for example, who fall into this group.
According to official Eurostat data, the sum of data from 2011 indicate there are 1, 023,248 people born in Bulgaria living around the world, Trud writes.
On Wednesday minimum temperatures in the country will range from 7 to 12° C., for Sofia 9° C. During the day there will be sun, with clouds over the mountains in the afternoon and occasional rain in some parts. Maximum temperatures 19-24° C., for..
Bulgarian timber, rather than imported wood, is the primary raw material for the wood processing and furniture industry in Bulgaria, caretaker Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Miroslav Marinov said at the official opening of the 20 th..
In 2021, the value added of the EU’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector was equivalent to 5.5% of the EU’s gross value added: 4.7% from ICT services and 0.8% from ICT manufacturing, Eurostat data show. Bulgaria is among the 3 EU..
Today, President Rumen Radev will receive caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev to discuss with him the proposed changes in the composition of the..
For the early parliamentary elections in Bulgaria and the elections for European Parliament, which will be held on June 9, at this stage it is planned to..
Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev has proposed to President Rumen Radev changes in the composition of the caretaker cabinet , the government..
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