Diseases of the circulatory system are the major mortality factor in Bulgaria. The second group of causes are oncological diseases followed by respiratory diseases, shows an analysis based on data from the 2021 census in Bulgaria, combined with mortality data for the country, the National Statistical Institute has announced. Life expectancy is different for the different ethnic groups in the country. The life expectancy for ethnic Bulgarian women it is 78.6 years, for women from the Turkish ethnic group - 76.9, for women from the Roma ethnic group - 71 years. The life expectancy for ethnic Bulgarian men is 70.8, for men of the ethnic Turkish group – 70.5 and for Roma men – 65.7 years.
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus 7 and minus 2°C, reaching minus 10°C in the valleys and around minus 9°C in Sofia. Tomorrow will be..
The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07 following an inspection by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. In addition to the repairs made to improve..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would lift its veto and that Bulgaria and Romania would probably become full members of Schengen from the..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
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