Bulgaria

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Facts

Population: 7,322,858 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 13.9% (male 521,117/female 496,022) 15-64 years: 68.7% (male 2,472,424/female 2,556,102) 65 years and over: 17.4% (male 523,660/female 753,533) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: -0.837% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 9.62 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 14.28 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: -3.71 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.051 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 0.967 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.695 male(s)/female total population: 0.924 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 19.16 deaths/1,000 live births male: 22.75 deaths/1,000 live births female: 15.37 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.57 years male: 68.95 years female: 76.4 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 1.39 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 346 (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: 100 (2001 est.).

Nationality: noun: Bulgarian(s) adjective: Bulgarian.

Ethnic groups: Bulgarian 83.9%, Turk 9.4%, Roma 4.7%, other 2% (including Macedonian, Armenian, Tatar, Circassian) (2001 census).

Religions: Bulgarian Orthodox 82.6%, Muslim 12.2%, other Christian 1.2%, other 4% (2001 census).

Languages: Bulgarian 84.5%, Turkish 9.6%, Roma 4.1%, other and unspecified 1.8% (2001 census).

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98.2% male: 98.7% female: 97.7% (2001 census).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $78.68 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 6.3% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $10,700 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 13.6% industry: 32.1% services: 54.3% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 3.51 million (30 September 2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 8.5% industry: 33.6% services: 57.9% (2nd qtr. 2006 est.).

Population below poverty line: 14.1% (2003 est.).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.9% highest 10%: 25.4% (2005).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 6.5% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 9.6% (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $13.28 billion expenditures: $12.16 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: vegetables, fruits, tobacco, wine, wheat, barley, sunflowers, sugar beets; livestock.

Industries: electricity, gas, water; food, beverages, tobacco; machinery and equipment, base metals, chemical products, coke, refined petroleum, nuclear fuel.

Industrial production growth rate: 11.3% (Third Quarter, 2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 45.7 billion kWh (2006).

Electricity - consumption: 37.4 billion kWh (2006).

Electricity - exports: 7.8 billion kWh (2006).

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2006).

Exports: $15.5 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: clothing, footwear, iron and steel, machinery and equipment, fuels.

Exports - partners: Italy 12%, Turkey 10.5%, Germany 9.8%, Greece 9.5%, Belgium 5.9%, France 4.6% (2005).

Imports: $23.8 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment; metals and ores; chemicals and plastics; fuels, minerals, and raw materials.

Imports - partners: Russia 15.6%, Germany 13.6%, Italy 9%, Turkey 6.1%, Greece 5%, France 4.7% (2005).

Debt - external: $24.3 billion (30 November 2006 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $742 million (2005-06 est.).

Currency (code): lev (BGL).

Exchange rates: leva per US dollar - 1.5576 (2006), 1.5741 (2005), 1.5751 (2004), 1.7327 (2003), 2.077 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.