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Current date: 2010-02-09 08:54

Population of Sofia increased in 2008

The population of Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia increased in 2008 amid rising birth rate and falling child morbidity, showed data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI). The report found that Sofia has started to ride out the demographic crisis which hit in the last decade of the twentieth century.

But the population of Sofia suffered from aging, with the average age growing to 40 years in the past ten years, from 38 in 1998.

Sofia accommodated around 1.2 million residents in 2008, which represents 16% of Bulgaria’s total population. The NSI expects that another 117,000 people will settle in the capital by 2025, excluding daily commuters and unregistered residents.

The NSI observed a continuing trend towards high morbidity among people aged under 65, who accounted for a quarter of all deaths in 2008.

Mirroring processes underway all across Europe, the number of Sofianites of working age diminished, with 79 people entering working age for every 100 retiring people.

There was an increase in the average birth ratio, with an average of 1.32 children born to a woman in Sofia. However, the report says this is far from the total fertility rate of the population of a minimum of 2.1 children born to a woman.