Кратък очерк за демографското развитие на България
Brief review of the historical-demographic development of Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The title of the article shows its task. There are five provisionally set periods of demographic development since 1900. 1. The prewar period 1900-1911. 2. The war period 1912-1920. 3. The post war period, including the years of World War II 1921-1944. 4. The period of totalitarian regime 1944-1989. 5. The transition period towards democracy — the years since 1989. The analysis of the characteristics of the population development of Bulgaria during the above periods is provided on the basis of the theory of the demographic transition—a theory which characterizes analithically the development of the world population especially in the years after World War II. The results from the analysis show that the demographic development of Bulgaria especially in the years after 1950 differs very little from the developed, urbanized and industrialized countries. The common features are: development towards replacing fertility, physiological minimum of mortality, zero natural growth which lead to an increasing life exspectancy at birth, population ageing and slower change of generations. During the recent years especially after 1990 new features of the demographic development are coming into being — features characteristic of the post transition period — further reduction of fertility and increasing mortality due to the urbanization and industrialization along with the emancipation of the person and the development of the science-technical progress. The results show that the development of the Bulgarian population differs very little from the population development of the industrialized countries.

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