Crude birth rate of Bulgaria 1875-2020

In 1875, the crude birth rate in Bulgaria was 36.5 births per thousand inhabitants; this meant that approximately 3.7 percent of the entire population had been born in that year. This number fluctuated over the next three decades, but there was an overall increase to 43 births per thousand people by 1905. From this point until the end of the century, Bulgaria's crude birth rate decreased by roughly 35 births, to just 8.3 in the year 2000. The fastest decline came in the 1920s and 1930s, and Bulgaria did not experience the global baby boom of the mid-1900s in the same way that most other countries did. There was a slight increase in Bulgaria's birth rate in the 1970s, and again in the early 2000s. In 2020, Bulgaria's birth rate is just nine births per thousand people.