by the Central Intelligence Agency

“ Exports: $10.5 billion (f.o.b., 1980) ; 45% machinery, equipment, and transportation equipment; 21% fuels, minerals, raw materials, metals, and other industrial material; 2% agricultural raw materials; 23% foodstuffs, raw materials for food industry, and animals; 9% industrial consumer goods (1980)
Imports: $9.7 billion (f.o.b., 1980) ; 35% machinery, equipment, and transportation equipment; 50% fuels, minerals, raw materials, metals, other materials; 5% agricultural raw materials; 5% foodstuffs, raw materials for food industry, and animals ”

“ Land boundaries: 1,883 km
WATER Limits of territorial waters (claimed) : 12 nm
Coastline: 354 km
PEOPLE Population: 8,940,000 (July 1982) , average annual growth rate 0.4%
Nationality: noun—Bulgarian (s) ; adjective—Bulgarian
Ethnic divisions: 85.3% Bulgarians, 8.5% Turks, 2.6% Gypsies, 2.5% Macedonians, 0.3% Armenians, 0.2% Russians, 0.6% other
Religion: regime promotes atheism; religious background of population is 85% Bulgarian Orthodox, 13% Muslim, 0.8% Jewish, 0.7% Roman Catholic, 0.5% Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian and other
Language: Bulgarian ”