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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On Sept. 26, The European Commission released a report giving the go-ahead to the two countries, while placing strict conditions on the terms of their membership.
Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam prevalent in Saudi Arabia, has been actively promoted within the region's Islamic communities over the past 15 years.
Recent events, and the actions of foreign mining companies, have re-focused public attention throughout central and Eastern Europe on the dangers associated with cyanide.
The Bulgarian newspapers are full of reports of warnings by the al-Tawhid group to turn Bulgaria
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