Bulgarian: ципани [tsiɡɐni] , Roma [rɔmi] ) in Bulgaria represent the densest Roma minority in Europe. The Roma people in Bulgaria "speak Bulgarian, Turkish or Roma, depending on the region and their religious affiliation".
According to the last census in 2011, the number of Roma is 825,343, which represents 4.4% of the total population, of which only one ethnic group can be chosen as an answer, and 10% of the total population did not answer the question about ethnic group. In a final census report sent to Eurostat , the authors of the census ( National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria ) described the results of the census of ethnicity as "gross manipulation". The former head of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria , Reneta Indjovaclaims to have been fired by the Bulgarian Prime Minister in 2014 for trying to verify the actual number of Roma, and it goes without saying that neither the census counted the Roma nor did his statistics provide "real data".
