40% of the territory of the country is a demographic desert due to drastic depopulation. This was announced by the parliamentary committee on demographic policy, children and the family, which is sitting remotely in the smallest municipality in Bulgaria – Treklyano, with a population of about 300 inhabitants in 19 villages, reported BNR.
With the stipulation that the commission does not make decisions, but tries to find a countermeasure to the extremely bad trend for the increasing disadvantaged populations and places and regions, its chairman and leader of "Revival" Kostadin Kostadinov announced the startling statistics:
"Out of 5,000 villages, 1,680 are included in this list, which means that 1/3 of our territory, according to our own country, is designated as a disadvantaged area. However, the territorial coverage turns out to be not 30%, but 42%. By the way, this absolutely completely coincides with the data that came out only about 2 months ago, from the latest study of the Institute for Population and Human Research at the BAS, which study made it clear that 40% of the country's territory is a demographic desert, which means less than 10 people per square kilometer".
Solving a number of problems, but mostly improving infrastructure, healthcare, creating prerequisites for business development, etc. are the way for a number of depopulated areas to have real movement and more favorable development, said participants in the meeting.
Vice-chairman of the recently formed parliamentary commission, which is meeting for the second time, Rositsa Kirova:
"We need a union of all the mayors of the respective region and a very clear choice of concept in which direction you want to develop as regions and municipalities. Let each municipality choose its specialization and work a little on the marketing product it has to sell.