Suhindol Municipality

Suhindol Municipality is a small municipality in Veliko Tarnovo Province, central-north Bulgaria, located in the transition between the Danubian Plain and the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Suhindol.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 3,046, as of December 2009.
The Hemus motorway is planned to cross the area connecting the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian [Black Sea Coast].

Settlements

Suhindol Municipality includes the following 6 places :

Town/Village	Cyrillic	Population
Suhindol	Сухиндол	2,146
Byala Reka	Бяла река	252
Gorsko Kalugerovo	Горско Калугерово	171
Gorsko Kosovo	Горско Косово	166
Koevtsi	Коевци	194
Krasno Gradishte	Красно градище	117
Total		3,046

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Vital statistics

The municipality of Suhindol has a low birth rate combined with a very high death rate, which makes the natural growth negative.

	Population	Live births	Deaths	Natural growth	Birth rate	Death rate	Natural growth rate
2000	3,739	42	121	−79	11.1	31.9	−20.8
2001	3,520	26	100	−74	7.2	27.6	−20.4
2002	3,537	33	94	−61	9.4	26.6	−17.3
2003	3,420	27	109	−82	7.8	31.3	−23.6
2004	3,351	24	81	−57	7.1	23.9	−16.8
2005	3,332	34	68	−34	10.2	20.4	−10.2
2006	3,248	33	87	−54	10.0	26.4	−16.4
2007	3,178	20	73	−53	6.2	22.7	−16.5
2008	3,100	25	73	−48	8.0	23.3	−15.3
2009	3,046	23	75	−52	7.5	24.4	−16.9
2010	2,967	23	109	−86	7.6	36.2	−28.6
2011	2,513	20	80	−60	7.9	31.6	−23.7
2012	2,460	26	92	−66	10.5	37.0	−26.5
2013	2,434	16	64	−48	6.5	26.2	−19.7
2014	2,389	21	92	−71	8.7	38.1	−29.4
2015	2,444	25	86	−61	10.2	35.2	−25.0
2016	2,374	17	76	−59	7.2	32.0	−24.9
2017	2,316	19	91	−72	8.2	39.3	−31.1
2018	2,255	21	83	−62	9.3	36.8	−27.5

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: