Yablanitsa Municipality

Yablanitsa Municipality
Община Ябланица
Municipality
Yablanitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Yablanitsa Municipality within Bulgaria and Lovech Province.
Coordinates: 43°3′N 24°5′E / 43.050°N 24.083°E / 43.050; 24.083
Country Bulgaria
Province (Oblast)Lovech
Admin. centre (Obshtinski tsentar)Yablanitsa
Area
 • Total
276 km2 (107 sq mi)
Population
 (December 2009)[1]
 • Total
6,427
 • Density23/km2 (60/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Yablanitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ябланица) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan, north of Stara Planina mountain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Yablanitsa.

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.

Settlements

Yablanitsa Municipality includes the following 9 places (towns are shown in bold):

Town/Village Cyrillic Population[2][3][4]
(December 2009)
Yablanitsa Ябланица 2,896
Batultsi Батулци 205
Brestnitsa Брестница 1,062
Dobrevtsi Добревци 547
Dabravata Дъбравата 88
Golyama Brestnitsa Голяма Брестница 182
Malak Izvor Малък извор 243
Oreshene Орешене 332
Zlatna Panega Златна Панега 872
Total 6,427

Demography

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]
Orthodox Christianity
 
 88.9%
Catholicism
 
 0.6%
Protestantism
 
 0.6%
Islam
 
 0.5%
No religion
 
 4.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and aindefinable
 
 5.3%

See also

References

  1. ^ a b (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian provinces and municipalities in 2009
  2. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian towns in 2009
  3. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian villages under 1000 inhabitants - December 2009
  4. ^ (in English) Bulgarian National Statistical Institute - Bulgarian Settlements 1000-5000 inhabitants - December 2009
  5. ^ National Statistical Institute - Census 2001
  6. ^ „pop-stat.mashke.org“
  7. ^ "Population of Bulgarian divisions". Pop-stat.mashke.org. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  8. ^ "Religious composition of Bulgaria 2011". pop-stat.mashke.org.