IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE MECHANICAL DEMOGRAPHIC MIGRATION IN BULGARIA

Abstract

This article focuses on certain demographic processes in Bulgaria during the Covid-19 pandemic in the period 2019-2021. Emphasis is placed on the mechanical migration on various routes. The unexpected intensive flow since the beginning of 2022, as a result of the military actions in Ukraine, which has also impacted a large part of European countries, including Bulgaria, is also taken into account. The PURPOSE of the analysis is to examine the positive and negative effects of Covid-19 pandemic on the demographic situation in the country. Statistical METHODS, synthesis, and analysis of literary sources are used. Statistical data from NSI for previous years for the period of the pandemic are used as a basis for comparative analysis. Articles, scientific publications, and studies by other authors, who examine and describe the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various aspects of human life, are reviewed. The RESULTS show the impact of the pandemic on people's desire for internal migration and its direction. This determines how and to what extent the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the depopulation of rural areas at the expense of overcrowding in large cities.

Keywords

• mechanical migration
• urbanization processes
• covid-19
• social consequences