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Bulgarian diaspora

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The Bulgarian diaspora includes ethnic Bulgarians living outside Bulgaria and immigrants from Bulgaria abroad.

The number of Bulgarians outside Bulgaria has sharply increased since 1989, following the collapse of the communism in Central and Eastern Europe. Over one million Bulgarians have left the country, either permanently or as temporary workforce, leading to a marked decline in its population. Many took advantage of the US green card lottery system (people applied for tickets, they did not purchase them). Also many Bulgarians immigrated to Canada using the advantage of the Canadian immigration point system for skilled workers. Others went across the European Union. In countries such as Greece and Spain many Bulgarians work and stay there intermittently while retaining Bulgaria as their permanent residence, especially after the country became an European Union member state in 2007.

Most of the causes for the spread of the post-1990s Bulgarian diaspora throughout the EU member states and Northern America (USA and Canada) have been related to work and education. Therefore, the majority of the emigrants have been allowed residence in other countries on skilled worker or student basis. That includes people of various skills - lower education workers (which usually deal with utilities and housekeeping) plumbers, construction workers, gardeners, handymen, maids, as well as a substantial amount of higher-education specialists - usually from the areas of engineering, computer science, chemistry and medicine.

The largest communities of the Bulgarian diaspora in the Western part of the European Union are in Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France and Italy.

Other places that attracted Bulgarian immigration are Australia, New Zealand, South America (especially Argentina and Brazil), South Africa, and some expats in United Arab Emirates.

Distribution by country

Country Bulgarian Citizens Ethnic Bulgarians Article
  Turkey 500,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarian Turks in Turkey and Bulgarians in Turkey
  Greece 300,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Greece
  United States 300,000 (in 2011)[1] 95,588[2]
2010 US Census		 Bulgarian Americans
  Spain 250,000 (in 2011)[1] 150,878 (in 2011)[3] Bulgarians in Spain
  United Kingdom 100,000 (in 2011)[1] 35,000 (in 2009)[4] Bulgarians in the United Kingdom
  Italy 100,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Italy
  Germany 74,869 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Germany
  Canada 70,000 (in 2011)[1] 30,485 (by ancestry, 2011 Census)[5] (official data) Bulgarian Canadians
  Macedonia 50,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in the Republic of Macedonia
  Cyprus 35,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Cyprus
  Russia 32,265 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Russia
  France 30,000 (in 2011)[1] 34,000 (in 2011)[citation needed] Bulgarians in France
  Moldova 20,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Moldova
  South Africa 20,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in South Africa
  Austria 18,481 (in 2014)[1] Bulgarians in Austria
  Belgium 18,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Belgium
  Australia 15,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarian Australian
  Portugal 15,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Portugal
  Serbia 15,000 (in 2011)[1] 18,543 (2011) [6] Bulgarians in Serbia
  Poland 14,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Poland
  Netherlands 12,340 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in the Netherlands
  Israel 7,500 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarian Jews in Israel
  Switzerland 4,500 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Switzerland
  Denmark 4,200 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Denmark
  Sweden 4,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Sweden
  UAE 3,500 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in UAE
  Czech Republic 3,206 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Czech Republic
  Ireland 3,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Ireland
  New Zealand 3,000 Bulgarians in New Zealand
  Hungary 2,800 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Hungary
  Argentina 2,500 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Argentina
  Romania 2,000 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Romania
  Norway 1,800 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Norway
  Slovakia 1,800 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Slovakia
  Slovenia 1,500 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Slovenia
  Syria 1,200 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Syria
  Lebanon 1,000 Bulgarians in Lebanon
  Jordan 1,000 (in 2011)[1]
  State of Palestine 1,000 (in 2011)[1]
  Finland 1,000 (in 2011)[1]
  Uruguay 1,000 (in 2005)[7][8] to 2,000 persons (1998)[9] Bulgarians in Uruguay
  Latvia 921 (2011 est.)[10]
  Luxembourg 800 (in 2011)[1]
  Kuwait 700 (in 2011)[1]
  Qatar 600 (in 2014)[11]
  Mexico 500 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Mexico
  Ukraine 420 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Ukraine
  Japan 350 (in 2011)[1]
  Morocco 312 (in 2011)[1]
  Croatia 300 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Croatia
  Brazil 277 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Brazil
  China 256 (in 2011)[1]
  Egypt 250 (in 2011)[1]
  Nigeria 250 (in 2011)[1]
  Indonesia 235 (in 2011)[1]
  Algeria 200 (in 2011)[1]
  Tunisia 200 (in 2011)[1]
  Chile 200 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Chile
  India 104 (in 2011)[1]
  Belarus 100 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Belarus
  Kosovo 100 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Kosovo
  South Korea 100 (in 2011)[1]
  Cuba 65 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Cuba
  Yemen 60 (in 2011)[1]
  Azerbaijan 50 (in 2011)[1]
  Vietnam 50 (in 2011)[1]
  Bosnia 44 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Bosnia
  Armenia 30 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarian Armenians in Armenia
  Albania 26 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Albania
  Georgia 25 (in 2011)[1]
  Montenegro 25 (in 2011)[1]
  Iran 20 (in 2011)[1]
  Kazakhstan 20 (in 2011)[1] Bulgarians in Kazakhstan
  Ethiopia 16 (in 2011)[1]
  Pakistan 11 (in 2011)[1]
  Uzbekistan 8 (in 2011)[1] 2,166 (in 1989 Soviet Census)[12]
  Mongolia 6 (in 2011)[1]
  Afghanistan 2 (in 2011)[1]
  Nicaragua 50 Bulgarians in Nicaragua
TOTAL 2,009,718 - 2,012,218 (  Bulgaria: 7,364,570 (in 2011)[13] )

See also

References

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