site.btaDepopulation Threatens Not Only Bulgaria's Population but Its Socio-Economic Development, Expert Warns

In a BTA interview, Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Tsekov of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) warned that depopulation is a huge threat not only to the development of demography in Bulgaria, but also to the socio-economic development of many regions in the country. Assoc. Prof. Tsekov is a specialist in regional demography, population and settlement geography, and labour economics at the BAS Institute for Population and Human Studies. According to him, the negative depopulation process in Bulgaria is related to the forced collectivisation carried out by the communist regime in the 1950s and 1960s.