Bulgaria
България
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Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 22.2%
- people aged 65 or older
- 1.4M
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 29.4%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 20.3 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 32.5%
- women 41%, men 20.5%
- of people 65+ live in collective quarters: care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like
- 0.4%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2011; UN, 2001 census
Languages
19 languages, 5 of them endangered
- KrymchakCritically endangered
- AromanianDefinitely endangered
- Balkan GagauzDefinitely endangered
- Crimean TatarVulnerable
- GagauzVulnerable
- Balkan Romani
- Bulgarian
- Bulgarian Sign Language
- Carpathian Romani
- Gheg
- Judaeo-Spanish
- Macedonian
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- Modern Greek
- Pontic Greek
- Romanian
- Russian Sign Language
- Serbisk
- Turkish
- Vlax Romani
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
UNESCO intangible heritage
- Bagpipes and bagpipe playing in Bulgaria: transmission of knowledge and skills2025
- Visoko multipart singing from Dolen and Satovcha, South-western Bulgaria2021
- Bulgarian Chitalishte (Community Cultural Centre): practical experience in safeguarding the vitality of the Intangible Cultural Heritage2017
- Cultural practices associated to the 1st of March2017
- Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa: a system of practices for heritage presentation and transmission2016
- Surova folk feast in Pernik region2015
- The tradition of carpet-making in Chiprovtsi2014
- Nestinarstvo, messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and Helena in the village of Bulgari2009
List and years: ich.unesco.org
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