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Goal 3: Good Health and Well-being

  Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages Targets   3.1    By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births 3.2    By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under‑5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births 3.3    By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases 3.4    By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being 3.5    Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including n ...

  • News 21.09.2021

Nearly quarter of country population counted online

... be kept by Sofia (42.8%), Varna (31.2%) and Gabrovo (26.4%). Right after Gabrovo, only with 0.1% behind, is ranked Ruse. The greatest part of counted dwellings is in Sofia (37.8%), Varna (22.0%) and Plovdiv (19.2%).  After them is Ruse where 18.3 of the dwellings are counted. Up to now the questionnaire about survey of migration attitudes has been filled in by 1 762 persons throughout the country. 790 persons answered the questionnaire about the reproductive behaviour. The surveys about the births and reproductive attitudes, as well as about the migration and migration behaviour are sample ones and are carried out parallelly with the census. Almost 44 000 randomly selected households throughout the country can fill in one of the two questionnaires.  

  • News 05.09.2021

History of censuses – history of Bulgaria

... cted. In the young Bulgarian state at that time 2 007 919 persons lived while the average number of people per household was 6. In 1887 after the Unification the population of Bulgaria increased up to 3 154 375 persons in 556 400 households. At that time only 10% of the population was literate. The population of Bulgaria has increased by 1985 despite the two world wars and the national catastrophes. In the 1980s, the 9 millionth Bulgarian was never born. In fact, the decrease in births started already in the 1970s due to urbanization of the country and reached its peak at the end of the 1990s. Population decrease after democratic changes was influenced also by the external migration. For 30 years transition the population has decreased with 1 570 769 persons. In 2001 for one more first time we were below 8 million.    In 2011 Bulgaria conducted the first census as an EU Member State. Then was also the first e-census in our country. The population was 7 3 ...

  • News 02.09.2021

How many children do we want and what do we need to stay in Bulgaria?

Population and Housing Census has always been a source of unique data which could not be collected otherwise. The same will be by conducting the 18th census in Bulgaria. Along with the traditional data for the number of people, households and dwellings, the life conditions and the mountains of information to be collected and processed, in the Census 2021 Programme there will be conducted as accompanying ones, surveys of the births and the reproduction attitudes, as well as for the migration and the migration behaviour of people in Bulgaria. The surveys are sample ones and almost 44 000 randomly selected households in all the country can fill in one of the two questionnaires. The data to be received from the survey of births will contribute to clarifying the reproduction attitudes, ideals and problems that people have and therefore appropriate demographic and social policies can be developed. There we ask questions about how many children you want to have and if this is not possible, why. The ...

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