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25,298 persons

Population by citizenship, 1 January (per country) · Bulgaria · 1 January 2024

1The observation, as this site stores it

Observation ID: 139061
Indicator: Population by citizenship, 1 January (per country)
What is counted: De jure population stock at 1 January by citizenship, age TOTAL, both sexes (Eurostat migr_pop1ctz), one member state per snapshot: the nine broad citizenship groups for every year and individual foreign countries for the latest three. Citizenship is the legal bond to a state, not country of birth and not ethnicity.
Statistical concept: De jure (usual resident) population, stock at 1 January, by citizenship
Geography: Bulgaria (country)
Period: 1 January 2024 (2024-01-01 to 2024-01-01)
Nationality: EU27 countries (from 2020) except reporting country (EU27_2020_FOR)
The Eurostat `citizen` codelist as the per-country migration tables use it: reporting-country citizens, foreign and stateless persons with their EU27 / non-EU27 / stateless split, the EFTA and candidate-country subsets of the non-EU27 group, unknown, and (stock table only) individual foreign countries. EFTA_FOR and CC9_23_FOR are SUBSETS of NEU27_2020_FOR, never additional parts.
Value: 25,298
Unit: Persons
Observation type: observed
Quality class: A
Provisional: no
Retrieved: 2026-10-09 08:47:23.637+00

2The raw source cell, transcribed verbatim

Cell reference: freq=A;citizen=EU27_2020_FOR;age=TOTAL;unit=NR;sex=T;geo=BG;time=2024
Value as published: 25298

Source dimensions for this cell
Source dimension	Source code	Source label
age	TOTAL	Total
geo	BG	Bulgaria
sex	T	Total
freq	A	Annual
time	2024	2024
unit	NR	Number
citizen	EU27_2020_FOR	EU27 countries (from 2020) except reporting country

The stored value is identical to the value in the raw snapshot. No transformation was applied.

3The immutable raw snapshot the cell came from

Snapshot id: 269
Request: GET https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/migr_pop1ctz?format=JSON&geo=BG&sex=T&age=TOTAL
Retrieved: 2026-10-09 08:47:23.637+00
Bytes: 34,323
SHA256: 7f0eca384533a53c24c368c10178ef5743ae30b756fc6b91e80c72c8a57993fb
Stored at: data/raw/eurostat-migr-pop1ctz/7f0eca384533a53c

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4The publisher, dataset and release

Publisher: Eurostat (Statistical Office of the European Union)
Dataset: Population on 1 January by age group, sex and citizenship
Table code: migr_pop1ctz
Release: 2026-09-25-BG
Publisher last updated: 2026-09-25 21:00:00+00
Licence: Eurostat reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) — free reuse with source acknowledgement

Methodological caveats

De jure population stock at 1 January, as the reporting country supplies it to Eurostat: the figure is that country's own, published through Eurostat, so it is never independent corroboration of its national population series. It is a different concept from a census enumerated population and from an end-of-year series, with a different reference moment, so it is never charted on the same axis as either. Citizenship is published in broad groups: citizens of the reporting country, foreign and stateless citizens split into EU27 and non-EU27 foreign citizens, and a set of historical EU, EFTA and candidate-country aggregates, with individual foreign countries for some countries and years. The EFTA and candidate-country groups are subsets of non-EU27 foreign citizens, not additional parts, and are never summed into a total. The published parts match the total closely but not always exactly (EU27 2024: a residual of 83,822 people, an artefact of summing 27 national tables), so no reconciliation is asserted unless it is stated for a specific country. Eurostat flags a break in this country's time series for this indicator in 1 January 2008: values on either side of a break were not measured the same way, so the change across it is not a like-for-like movement.