Yablanitsa Municipality
Yablanitsa Municipality is a small municipality in Lovech Province, Central-North Bulgaria, located in the area of the so-called Fore-Balkan, north of Stara Planina mountain. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Yablanitsa.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 6,427 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
As of 2010, the west operating part of Hemus motorway ends near the main town. The motorway is planned to connect the capital city of Sofia with the port of Varna on the Bulgarian [Black Sea Coast].
Settlements
Yablanitsa Municipality includes the following 9 places :| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population |
| Yablanitsa | Ябланица | 2,896 |
| Batultsi | Батулци | 205 |
| Brestnitsa, [Lovech Province|Brestnitsa] | Брестница | 1,062 |
| Dobrevtsi | Добревци | 547 |
| Dabravata | Дъбравата | 88 |
| Golyama Brestnitsa | Голяма Брестница | 182 |
| Malak Izvor | Малък извор | 243 |
| Oreshene | Орешене | 332 |
| Zlatna Panega | Златна Панега | 872 |
| Total | 6,427 |
Demography
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.Vital statistics
The municipality of Yablanitsa has one of the highest birth rate in Bulgaria. Especially Roma people in some villages tend to have high fertility rates.| Population | Live births | Deaths | Natural growth | Birth rate | Death rate | Natural growth rate | |
| 2000 | 7,195 | 81 | 138 | -57 | 11.3 | 19.2 | -7.9 |
| 2001 | 6,822 | 91 | 136 | -45 | 13.3 | 19.9 | -6.6 |
| 2002 | 6,816 | 94 | 132 | -38 | 13.8 | 19.4 | -5.6 |
| 2003 | 6,836 | 102 | 116 | -14 | 14.9 | 17.0 | -2.0 |
| 2004 | 6,751 | 90 | 124 | -34 | 13.3 | 18.4 | -5.0 |
| 2005 | 6,705 | 95 | 114 | -19 | 14.2 | 17.0 | -2.8 |
| 2006 | 6,629 | 94 | 100 | -6 | 14.2 | 15.1 | -0.9 |
| 2007 | 6,556 | 89 | 98 | -9 | 13.6 | 14.9 | -1.4 |
| 2008 | 6,451 | 83 | 104 | -21 | 12.9 | 16.1 | -3.3 |
| 2009 | 6,427 | 102 | 92 | 10 | 15.9 | 14.3 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 6,334 | 85 | 137 | -52 | 13.4 | 21.6 | -8.2 |
| 2011 | 6,210 | 82 | 100 | -18 | 13.2 | 16.1 | -2.9 |
| 2012 | 6,150 | 81 | 112 | -31 | 13.2 | 18.2 | -5.0 |
| 2013 | 6,092 | 85 | 106 | -21 | 14.0 | 17.4 | -3.4 |
| 2014 | 6,017 | 76 | 102 | -26 | 12.6 | 17.0 | -4.3 |
| 2015 | 5,971 | 66 | 103 | -37 | 11.1 | 17.3 | -6.2 |
| 2016 | 5,902 | 67 | 111 | -44 | 11.4 | 18.8 | -7.5 |
| 2017 | 5,786 | 82 | 136 | -54 | 14.2 | 23.5 | -9.3 |
| 2018 | 5,727 | 76 | 105 | -29 | 13.3 | 18.3 | -5.1 |
| 2019 | 5,607 | 58 | 118 | -60 | 10.3 | 21.0 | -10.7 |
| 2020 | 5,742 | 77 | 102 | -25 | 13.4 | 17.8 | -4.4 |
| 2021 | 5,632 | 76 | 150 | -74 | 13.5 | 26.6 | -13.1 |