8.4 percent of Bulgaria's 6.5 million population is of Turkish origin
The Bulgarian National Institute of Statistics has published a document containing the details of the 2021 census in the country.
According to the institute, the statistics prepared are based on freely declared personal information of citizens.
According to the statistics analyzed by the AA correspondent, 508 thousand 378 people are of Turkish origin in Bulgaria, where 6 million 519 thousand 789 people live.
In this case, Turks in Bulgaria correspond to 8.4 percent of the population.
Bulgarians make up 78.7 percent of the population, while Roma make up 4.4 percent.
Among the 79 thousand people who declared that they came from other groups, the most crowded group is the Pomaks, whose origin is Bulgarian but whose religion is Islam.
The Russian ethnic group also draws attention with 14 thousand.
Proportion of Turkish origin in children aged 0-14, 9 percent of the population
In Bulgaria, children aged 0-14 are of Turkish origin, 9 percent of the population, and 9.1 percent of the Roma population.
Bulgarians in this age range represent 78.7 percent of the population.
514 thousand 386 people declared the speak Turkish as their mother tongue.
85.3 percent of the people in Bulgaria define their mother tongue as Bulgarian.
While there are 514 thousand 386 people pointing out that their mother tongue is Turkish, 227 thousand 974 people say that their mother tongue is Romani.
Responses of respondents in the last census show that Turkish is the mother tongue of 514 thousand 386 citizens, representing 8.7 percent of the general population in the country.
After the country's accession to the European Union (EU) in 2007, the interest in Turkish elective courses taught as the mother tongue in public schools is gradually decreasing.
38.4 percent of Turkish origin people live in big cities
38.4 percent of Bulgarian Turks live in big cities.
Turks represent a significant part of the population of 5 cities in the country.
WHERE TURKS LIVE?
Bulgarian Turks made up 64.5 percent of the population in Kardzhali, 50.4 percent in Razgrad, 37.7 percent in Targovishte, 37.1 percent in Silistra, 31.3 percent in Shumen.
48.4 percent of the 508 thousand 378 people who define themselves as Turkish live in these 5 cities.
Muslims make up 10.8 percent of the population.
In Bulgaria, where Eastern Orthodoxy is defined as the "traditional faith", the latest census shows a population of 4.2 million Christians, making up 71.5 percent of the population.
638,708 citizens who define themselves as Muslims make up 10.8 percent of the population. 1736 people declare to be Jewish.
While 5.2 percent (305 thousand 102 people) of the general population state that they are not affiliated with any religion, 4.4 percent (259 thousand 235 people) say that they have difficulty in expressing their beliefs. 8 percent (472 thousand 606 people) do not want to answer this question.
51.4 percent of the population is made up of those who describe themselves as "religious". In the previous census conducted in 2011, the rate of those who gave this answer was 60.4 percent.
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