Population
2001 census data states that about 86% of Dobrich's inhabitants are ethnic Bulgarians, followed by Turks at 8% and Roma at 3.5%. The percentage of Orthodox Christians is 86%, whereas 10% of the population are adherents of the Muslim faith.
According to census 2011, Dobrich has a population of 89,472 inhabitants as of February 2011. The number of the residents of the city reached its peak in the period 1986-1991 when exceeded 110,000. The following table presents the change of the population after the liberation of the country in 1878.
| Dobrich | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 1887 | 1910 | 1934 | 1946 | 1956 | 1965 | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 10,717 | 17,146 | no data | 30,522 | 42,661 | 55,191 | 86,663 | 109,170 | 104,485 | 100,000 | 93,802 | 92,672 | 89,472 |
| Highest number 116,066 in 1991 | |||||||||||||
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