page_title: Vidin Province
section_title: Population
hierarchical_section_title: Vidin Province / Population
caption_attribution_description: English: Belogradchik Rocks, Bulgaria. Author: Philip Philipov
context_page_description: Vidin Province is the northwesternmost province of Bulgaria. It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast. Its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river. The area is divided into 11 municipalities. As of December 2009, the province has a population of 108,067 inhabitants.
  There are remains of many castles, some of which are Baba Vida, one of the last Bulgarian strongholds during the Ottoman invasion and the Belogradchik fortress.
context_section_description: The Vidin province had a population of 130,074 according to a 2001 census, of which 48.4% were male and 51.6% were female.
  As of the end of 2009, the population of the province, announced by the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute, numbered 108,067 of which 32.6% are inhabitants aged over 60 years.
  Vidin is the oldest province in Bulgaria, with 28.9% of its population 65 years or older at the end of 2016. There is a big difference between the percentage elderly living in urban and rural areas: in urban areas 21.1% of the population is 65 years or older while that percentage is 42.8% in rural areas. The percentage of children up to 15 years is 13.5% in urban areas and only 9.8% in rural areas.
  The following table represents the change of the population in the province after World War II:
caption: The Belogradchik Rocks
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