The municipality of Dospat lost a large part of its population since the fall of communism in Bulgaria, due to emigration and more recently due to negative growth rate.

There were 64 children born in 2016, down from 91 compared to five years earlier.

Of those people only 55 are Orthodox Christians, while the other part declared to be Muslim.

That means that nearly all of the inhabitants with a religion are Muslims, especially Bulgarian Muslims or the so-called Pomaks (89.0%) as Dospat is predominantly inhabited by ethnic Bulgarians.

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