# Boynitsa Municipality

Boynitsa Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Бойница) is a small frontier municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located in the Danubian Plain about 20 km southwest of Danube river. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Boynitsa. The area borders on the Republic of Serbia to the west and northwest.
The municipality embraces a territory of 166 km$^2$ (64 sq mi) with a population of 1,717 inhabitants, as of December 2009.

## Settlements

Boynitsa Municipality includes the following 8 places all of them villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population (December 2009) |
| Boynitsa | Бойница | 595 |
| Borilovets | Бориловец | 299 |
| Gradskovski Kolibi | Градсковски колиби | 67 |
| Kanits | Каниц | 15 |
| Perilovets | Периловец | 91 |
| Rabrovo | Раброво | 468 |
| Shipikova Mahala | Шипикова махала | 8 |
| Shishentsi | Шишенци | 174 |
| Total | | 1,717 |

## Demography

The following table shows the change of the population since World War II.

### Vital statistics

As of most recent statistics from 2023, the population of Boynitsa dropped further to 744 people. There were only 6 births recorded and 24 deaths. That means that the population dropped by 18 people, because of natural increase. In the period between 2000-2023 there were a total of 119 births recorded. The number of deaths in the same period was 1,694. That means that the population of Boynitsa declined by 1,575 people just because the fact more people are dying than that being born. Boynitsa is one of the smallest municipalities by population (only Treklyano Municipality has a smaller population).
| | Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural growth | Birth rate (‰) | Death rate (‰) | Natural growth rate (‰) |
| 2000 | 2,335 | 13 | 96 | -83 | 5.6 | 41.1 | -35.5 |
| 2001 | 2,186 | 12 | 90 | -78 | 5.5 | 41.2 | -35.7 |
| 2002 | 2,152 | 7 | 84 | -77 | 3.3 | 39.0 | -35.8 |
| 2003 | 2,139 | 7 | 67 | -60 | 3.3 | 31.3 | -28.0 |
| 2004 | 2,075 | 4 | 81 | -77 | 1.9 | 39.0 | -37.1 |
| 2005 | 1,947 | 3 | 117 | -114 | 1.5 | 60.1 | -58.6 |
| 2006 | 1,850 | 8 | 92 | -84 | 4.3 | 49.7 | -45.4 |
| 2007 | 1,913 | 4 | 72 | -68 | 2.1 | 37.6 | -35.5 |
| 2008 | 1,797 | 5 | 89 | -84 | 2.8 | 49.5 | -46.7 |
| 2009 | 1,717 | 5 | 74 | -69 | 2.9 | 43.1 | -40.2 |
| 2010 | 1,659 | 7 | 70 | -63 | 4.2 | 43.2 | -38.0 |
| 2011 | 1,293 | 6 | 72 | -66 | 4.6 | 55.7 | -51.0 |
| 2012 | 1,218 | 3 | 73 | -70 | 2.5 | 59.9 | -57.4 |
| 2013 | 1,169 | 7 | 65 | -58 | 6.0 | 55.6 | -49.6 |
| 2014 | 1,126 | 3 | 60 | -57 | 2.7 | 53.3 | -50.6 |
| 2015 | 1,143 | 0 | 52 | -52 | 0.0 | 45.5 | -45.5 |
| 2016 | 1,077 | 4 | 56 | -52 | 3.7 | 52.0 | -48.3 |
| 2017 | 996 | 4 | 46 | -42 | 4.0 | 46.2 | -42.2 |
| 2018 | 936 | 2 | 55 | -53 | 2.1 | 58.8 | -56.6 |
| 2019 | 869 | 4 | 45 | -41 | 4.6 | 51.8 | -47.2 |
| 2020 | 823 | 2 | 40 | -38 | 2.4 | 48.6 | -46.2 |
| 2021 | 780 | 2 | 54 | -52 | 2.6 | 69.2 | -66.6 |
| 2022 | 740 | 1 | 43 | -42 | 1.4 | 58.1 | -56.7 |
| 2023 | 744 | 6 | 24 | -18 | 8.1 | 32.3 | -24.2 |

### 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 Boynitsa Municipality
Orthodox Christianity
77.7%
Catholicism
0.0%
Protestantism
0.6%
Islam
0.0%
No religion
5.1%
Prefer not to answer, others and indefinable
16.6% :