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.
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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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