According to the national population census conducted in Bulgaria on September 7, 2021, there were a total of 1,865,132 families, of which 1,176,372 families (63.1%) had at least one child, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) reported on Wednesday ). country.

The definition of family used by the Bulgarian INS is two or more people who live in the same household and are related to each other through some degree of consanguinity, or through marriage, cohabitation or adoption, according to the Bulgarian news agency BTA, taken over Agerpres.

A little more than 65%, i.e. 766,751 families, had a child. The number of families with two, three or more children decreased both in absolute and relative terms. There are 47,859 large families with three or more children, or 4.1% of all families with children.

688,760 families (36.9%) were childless (34.8% in cities, 42.6% in villages).

Out of 688,760 families without children, 34.8% live in cities, 42.6% in rural areas.

The total population of Bulgaria is decreasing

In the previous census of 2011, 813,995 (38.3%) Bulgarian families had no children. But in 2011, the total population of Bulgaria was 7,364,570 inhabitants, compared to 6,447,710 at the end of December 2022.

Data from the latest censuses show that the average Bulgarian family has one child.

There are certain regional differences regarding the “number of children in the family” indicator. The districts with the highest share of families with three or more children are Sliven with 5.7%, Yambol with 3.7% and Vratsa with 3.6%. The smallest share is Smolyan with 1.2% and Kyustendil with 1.7%.

The districts with the highest relative share of families without children are Smolyan with 45%, Vidin with 44.1% and Silistra with 43.6%, while the districts with the lowest share are the city of Sofia with 31.7%, Sofia and Varna with 35% each. and Blagoevgrad with 35.1%.