8,000 Bulgarians returned to Bulgaria and nearly 12,000 left the country in 2023. Magdalena Kostova, director of the Demographic and Social Statistics Directorate at the NSI, told the "Horizon" program of the BNR. 65% of those leaving..
May 24 has been announced as Bulgarian Cultural Heritage Day in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The document was personally signed by the mayor of Vancouver, and the credit for this goes to the team of the Consulate General of Bulgaria in..
In 1925 and 1926, about 10,000 Bessarabian Bulgarians, lured by promises of a well-organized life, arrived in Brazil. However, their hopes were dashed. They were forced to work in the plantations for 2 years to cover the funds that Brazilian landowners..
The Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the ensuing civil war prompted thousands of noblemen and intellectuals to flee their homeland to escape the rising violence. Many of them found refuge in Bulgaria, while others continued..
One in four Bulgarians has considered emigrating. However, 71% say that life in another country is not easy, indicates a survey conducted by Trend sociological agency and commissioned by 24 Chasa newspaper. The majority of the respondents..
The National Statistical Institute - NSI expects the results of the upcoming census to show that Bulgarians decline by about 50,000-60,000 per year. The new census starts on January 22, 2021. What current statistics show is that Bulgaria..
Over the past 5 years one in three Bulgarians, or a relative, have worked or are working in another EU country, indicates a survey by Afis sociological and marketing agency. Data show that the share of people to whom Europe is a direct life..
To solve Bulgaria’s demographic issues efforts in the coming 3.5 years will be aimed at boosting birthrate, cutting youth emigration and promoting a new emigration policy. This was the answer of Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov to..
For the past 20 years close to 1 million Bulgarians have emigrated , Novinar writes referring to a report of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) about the economic development of the country and how emigration impacts the labor market. “This..
