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Islam in Bulgaria is a minority religion and the second largest religion in the country after Christianity. According to the 2021 Census, the total number of Muslims in Bulgaria stood at 638,708 [2] corresponding to 9.8% of the population. [3]
For example: Bulgaria had a total birth rate of 10.5‰ in 1992 while Muslims formed about 13 percent of the total population. However, in provinces with large Muslim populations the birth rate ranged from in 11.0% in Smolyan and 11.6% in Silistra to 13.1% in Razgrad (>50 percent Muslim) and 14.7% in Kardzhali (about 70 percent Muslim).
The ongoing Muslim demographic crisis and the heavy migration to Turkey were the two primary reasons for the rapid decrease in Bulgaria's Muslim and Turkish population between 1880 and 1910, from 28.7% in 1880 to 13.8% in 1910 for Muslims and from 26.2% to 10.7% for Turks.
Adjusted for the Circassians who were carried over to "established Muslims" or left out of the Salname in 1874 (male-female-aggregated figures of 27,650 and 40,000 [62]) and the Crimean Tatar, Nogai and Circassian refugees settled until 1861 (93,000 [55]), the male-female-aggregated Muslim population of the future Principality of Bulgaria in ...
Islam is the second largest religion in Bulgaria, adhered to by 9.8% of the population, or about six hundred thousand people, according to the census of 2021. [1] The Bulgarian Muslim community is ethnically diversified, comprising Muslim Bulgarians or Pomaks , and Turkish , Romani and Tatar Muslims. [ 16 ]
"The Human Rights of Muslims in Bulgaria in Law and Politics since 1878", Sofia, November 2003; Kristen R. Ghodsee (2009). Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13955-5. Горчева, Даниела (1 February 2009).
However, the population of present-day Bulgaria in the 1450s is estimated to have hit a low of 600,000 people, divided into approx. 450,000 Christians and 150,000 Muslims (or a Christian-to-Muslim ratio of 3:1 or 75 per cent to 25 per cent) following the wide-scale migration of Muslims from Anatolia and emigration of Christians to Wallachia ...
During the period 1910 - 1920 the population growth in Bulgaria was as follows: ... Muslim: 690,734 14,2 Judaism 43,232 0.8 Roman Catholic: 34,072 0.7 Armenian Grecorian