# Alfatar Municipality

Alfatar Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Алфатар) is a small municipality (obshtina) in Silistra Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain, in the area of the South Dobrudzha geographical region, about 15 km south of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Alfatar.
The municipality embraces a territory of 248.57 km$^2$ (95.97 sq mi) with a population of 3,324 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The main road "7" crosses the area from north to south, connecting the province centre of Silistra with the city of Shumen and the eastern operating part of Hemus motorway.

## Settlements

Alfatar Municipality includes the following 7 places (towns are shown in bold):
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| Alfatar | Алфатар | 1,714 |
| Alekovo | Алеково | 578 |
| Bistra | Бистра | 367 |
| Chukovets | Чуковец | 287 |
| Kutlovitsa | Кутловица | 77 |
| Tsar Asen | Цар Асен | 191 |
| Vasil Levski | Васил Левски | 110 |
| Total | | 3,324 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
Alfatar Municipality :
| Year | 1975 | 1985 | 1992 | 2001 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 |
| Population | 6,373 | 5,454 | 4,630 | 3,990 | 3,629 | 3,451 | 3,324 | ... |
| Sources: Census 2001, Census 2011, „pop-stat.mashke.org“, |||||||||

### Ethnic groups

Ethnic Bulgarians constitute the majority of the population of Alfatar Municipality, followed by ethnic Turks and Roma people in Bulgaria.
Ethnic groups in Alfatar Municipality (2011 census) :
| Ethnic group | Ethnic group | Percentage | Percentage |
| Bulgarians | Bulgarians | 73.6% | 73.6% |
| Turks | Turks | 15.1% | 15.1% |
| Roma | Roma | 11.0% | 11.0% |
| others and indefinable | others and indefinable | 0.3% | 0.3% |

### 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 Alfatar Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
68.8%
Catholicism
0.0%
Protestantism
0.1%
Islam
20.2%
No religion
4.9%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
6.0% :

### Vital statistics

| | Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural growth | Birth rate (‰) | Death rate (‰) | Natural growth rate (‰) |
| 2000 | 4,313 | 38 | 91 | -53 | 8.8 | 21.0 | -12.3 |
| 2001 | 3,927 | 29 | 92 | -63 | 7.4 | 23.4 | -16.0 |
| 2002 | 3,813 | 18 | 90 | -72 | 4.7 | 23.6 | -18.9 |
| 2003 | 3,725 | 26 | 95 | -69 | 7.0 | 25.5 | -18.5 |
| 2004 | 3,655 | 23 | 80 | -57 | 6.3 | 21.9 | -15.6 |
| 2005 | 3,629 | 18 | 85 | -67 | 5.0 | 23.4 | -18.5 |
| 2006 | 3,544 | 18 | 91 | -73 | 5.1 | 25.7 | -20.6 |
| 2007 | 3,451 | 19 | 74 | -55 | 5.5 | 21.4 | -15.9 |
| 2008 | 3,390 | 20 | 68 | -48 | 5.9 | 20.1 | -14.2 |
| 2009 | 3,324 | 34 | 80 | -46 | 10.2 | 24.1 | -13.9 |
| 2010 | 3,241 | 10 | 64 | -54 | 3.1 | 19.7 | -16.7 |
| 2011 | 3,020 | 23 | 64 | -41 | 7.6 | 21.2 | -13.6 |
| 2012 | 2,952 | 15 | 74 | -59 | 5.1 | 25.1 | -20.0 |
| 2013 | 2,892 | 14 | 64 | -50 | 4.8 | 22.1 | -17.3 |
| 2014 | 2,812 | 18 | 79 | -61 | 6.4 | 28.1 | -21.7 |
| 2015 | 2,761 | 13 | 65 | -52 | 4.7 | 23.5 | -18.8 |
| 2016 | 2,704 | 21 | 69 | -48 | 7.8 | 25.5 | -17.8 |
| 2017 | 2,690 | 23 | 64 | -41 | 8.6 | 23.8 | -15.2 |
| 2018 | 2,655 | 15 | 77 | -62 | 5.6 | 29.0 | -23.4 |