The municipality embraces a territory of 276 km2 (107 sq mi) with a population of 6,427 inhabitants, as of December 2009.[1]
As of 2010, the west operating part of Hemus motorway ends near the main town. The motorway is planned to connect the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Yablanitsa Municipality
Year
1975
1985
1992
2001
2005
2007
2009
2011
Population
9,411
8,243
7,532
6,902
6,705
6,556
6,427
...
Sources: Census 2001,[5] Census 2011,[6] „pop-stat.mashke.org“,[7]
Vital statistics
The municipality of Yablanitsa has one of the highest birth rate in Bulgaria. Especially Roma people in some villages tend to have high fertility rates.
Population
Live births
Deaths
Natural growth
Birth rate (‰)
Death rate (‰)
Natural growth rate (‰)
2000
7,195
81
138
-57
11.3
19.2
-7.9
2001
6,822
91
136
-45
13.3
19.9
-6.6
2002
6,816
94
132
-38
13.8
19.4
-5.6
2003
6,836
102
116
-14
14.9
17.0
-2.0
2004
6,751
90
124
-34
13.3
18.4
-5.0
2005
6,705
95
114
-19
14.2
17.0
-2.8
2006
6,629
94
100
-6
14.2
15.1
-0.9
2007
6,556
89
98
-9
13.6
14.9
-1.4
2008
6,451
83
104
-21
12.9
16.1
-3.3
2009
6,427
102
92
10
15.9
14.3
1.6
2010
6,334
85
137
-52
13.4
21.6
-8.2
2011
6,210
82
100
-18
13.2
16.1
-2.9
2012
6,150
81
112
-31
13.2
18.2
-5.0
2013
6,092
85
106
-21
14.0
17.4
-3.4
2014
6,017
76
102
-26
12.6
17.0
-4.3
2015
5,971
66
103
-37
11.1
17.3
-6.2
2016
5,902
67
111
-44
11.4
18.8
-7.5
2017
5,786
82
136
-54
14.2
23.5
-9.3
2018
5,727
76
105
-29
13.3
18.3
-5.1
2019
5,607
58
118
-60
10.3
21.0
-10.7
2020
5,742
77
102
-25
13.4
17.8
-4.4
2021
5,632
76
150
-74
13.5
26.6
-13.1
Religion
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
Religious composition of Yablanitsa Municipality [8]
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