Bulgaria 
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.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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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),
Bulgaria in the News
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The European Union is rubbing some people in Eastern Europe the wrong way. In a commentary for the pro-government Vjesnik (Oct. 31) of Zagreb, Maja Freundlich accuses the EU of plotting to return Croatia to Yugoslavia.
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