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.
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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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World Press Review correspondents describe how the war with Iraq is being covered in their countries.
Wiretaps. Spies. A disgraced general. Dark plots for revenge. Allegations that the minister of justice was an informer for the State Security Service under communist rule…Since an interrelated web of scandals first broke in the press late in 2002, Bulgarian newspapers have read like scripts for a classic film noir. World Press Review correspondent Plamen Petrov reports from Sofia, Bulgaria
The Bulgarian newsmagazine Sega profiles pioneering immunologist Stoyan Bardarov.
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