# Novo Selo Municipality, Bulgaria

Novo Selo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ново село) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Novo Selo. The area borders on Romania beyond the Danube to the north.
The municipality embraces a territory of 109.5 km$^2$ (42.3 sq mi) with a population of 2,979 inhabitants, as of the April 2011 census.

## Settlements

Novo Selo Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population |
| Novo Selo | Ново село | 1,015 |
| Florentin | Флорентин | 352 |
| Negovanovtsi | Неговановци | 398 |
| Vinarovo | Винарово | 755 |
| Yasen | Ясен | 259 |
| Total | | 2,979 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Novo Selo Municipality :
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 7,187 | 5,753 | 5,218 | 4,206 | 3,733 | 3,588 | 3,381 | 2,979 |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Age structure

The municipality of Novo Selo has a fastly ageing population. As of December 2018 the share of elderly people (aged 65+) reached 43.4%, up from 41.7% in 2011. The share of children aged up to 14 years old declined from 8.6% tot 8.4% in the same period.
Age structure of Novo Selo Municipality :
| Year | Population | 0–4 | 5–9 | 10–14 | 15–19 | 20–24 | 25–29 | 30–34 | 35–39 | 40–44 | 45–49 | 50–54 | 55–59 | 60–64 | 65–69 | 70–74 | 75–79 | 80+ |
| February 2011 | 2,979 | 61 | 102 | 93 | 88 | 104 | 82 | 132 | 111 | 127 | 139 | 151 | 219 | 327 | 342 | 301 | 285 | 315 |
| December 2016 | 2,691 | 73 | 63 | 97 | 103 | 81 | 96 | 98 | 119 | 120 | 149 | 148 | 152 | 225 | 303 | 314 | 232 | 318 |
| December 2017 | 2,593 | 64 | 61 | 96 | 113 | 75 | 97 | 91 | 104 | 120 | 146 | 147 | 142 | 195 | 286 | 316 | 238 | 312 |
| December 2018 | 2,500 | 66 | 58 | 87 | 119 | 69 | 84 | 94 | 94 | 122 | 139 | 137 | 149 | 197 | 236 | 316 | 242 | 291 |

### Ethnic composition

According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification (in total 2970), the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:
| Ethnic group | Population | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | 2834 | 96.7% |
| Turks | NA | NA |
| Roma (Gypsy) | 70 | 2.4% |
| Other | 19 | 0.6% |
| Undeclared | NA | NA |
Bulgarians constitute the largest ethnic group in the municipality of Novo Selo. Nearly all Romani people are concentrated in the village of Novo Selo. There is also a significant "Vlach" (Romanian) community, but their numbers are declining rapidly.

### Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
Religious composition of Novo Selo Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
94.0%
Catholicism
0.4%
Protestantism
0.2%
Islam
0.0%
No religion
2.4%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
3.0% :
An overwhelming majority of the population of Novo Selo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 94.0% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.