Demographics of Bulgaria - Religion

Religion

The majority religion in Bulgaria is Orthodox Christian, with a large minority of Sunni Muslims. Since the last two censuses (2001 and 2011) provide widely divergent results, they are both shown in the table below. It is noteworthy that over a fifth of the population chose not to respond to this question in the 2011 census.

2001 2011
Orthodox Christian 82.6% 59.4%
Muslim 12.2% 7.8% (7.4 % Sunni; 0.4 % Shia)
Catholic 0.6% 0.7%
Protestant 0.5% 0.9%
Other 1.9% 0.15%
None 3.6% 9.3%
No response 0.3 % 21.8 %

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