Демографски перспективи пред най-малките селски селища в България
Demographic Outlook for the Smallest Villages in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: As the small rural villages in Bulgaria are defined villages with a population of 200 inhabitants. Half of the 5,000 villages in Bulgaria fall into this category , but they occupied only 8.2 percent of the country‘s rural population according to the census of population and housing in 2011. Due to the prolonged impact of the processes of depopulation on vast , predominantly agricultural areas in the country , the category of the smallest villages increased significantly in scope during the period after 1946. The main reason for such kind of development is depopulation of villages with a population of 500, 1000 or even 2000 people who have passed into the category of the smallest settlements. At the same time, at least a large number of settlements from viewing the category is deleted in the past 6 decades by the complete depopulation , and in nearly 200 existing smallest villages no longer lives . Demographic situation among residents of the smallest villages, located mainly in mountain regions, is very difficult because of the marginal population aging . Only in inhabited mainly by pomacs in Rhodopes mountains small villages a positive natural growth is registered. This region has a chance for sustainable development due to relatively low migration mobility among the youngest rural population in Bulgaria.

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