| Novo Selo Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Община Ново село |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Vidin |
| Subdivision Name2: | Novo Selo |
| Timezone: | EET |
| Utc Offset: | +2 |
| Timezone Dst: | EEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 44.1333°N 69°W |
| Area Total Km2: | 109.5 |
| Population As Of: | April 2011 |
| Population Total: | 2,979 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Website: | obshtina-novoselo.com |
Novo Selo Municipality (Bulgarian: Община Ново село) is a frontier municipality (obshtina) in Vidin Province, Northwestern Bulgaria, located along the right bank of Danube river in the Danubian Plain. It is named after its administrative centre - the village of Novo Selo. The area borders on Romania beyond the Danube to the north.
The municipality embraces a territory of with a population of 2,979 inhabitants, as of the April 2011 census.[1]
Novo Selo Municipality includes the following 5 places all of them villages:
| Town/Village | Cyrillic | Population | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novo Selo | Ново село | 1,015 | |
| Florentin | Флорентин | 352 | |
| Negovanovtsi | Неговановци | 398 | |
| Vinarovo | Винарово | 755 | |
| Yasen | Ясен | 259 | |
| Total | 2,979 |
The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.
The municipality of Novo Selo has a fastly ageing population. As of December 2018 the share of elderly people (aged 65+) reached 43.4%, up from 41.7% in 2011. The share of children aged up to 14 years old declined from 8.6% tot 8.4% in the same period.
| Age structure of Novo Selo Municipality | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Population | 0–4 | 5–9 | 10–14 | 15–19 | 20–24 | 25–29 | 30–34 | 35–39 | 40–44 | 45–49 | 50–54 | 55–59 | 60–64 | 65–69 | 70–74 | 75–79 | 80+ | |
| February 2011 | 2,979 | 61 | 102 | 93 | 88 | 104 | 82 | 132 | 111 | 127 | 139 | 151 | 219 | 327 | 342 | 301 | 285 | 315 | |
| December 2016 | 2,691 | 73 | 63 | 97 | 103 | 81 | 96 | 98 | 119 | 120 | 149 | 148 | 152 | 225 | 303 | 314 | 232 | 318 | |
| December 2017 | 2,593 | 64 | 61 | 96 | 113 | 75 | 97 | 91 | 104 | 120 | 146 | 147 | 142 | 195 | 286 | 316 | 238 | 312 | |
| December 2018 | 2,500 | 66 | 58 | 87 | 119 | 69 | 84 | 94 | 94 | 122 | 139 | 137 | 149 | 197 | 236 | 316 | 242 | 291 | |
According to the 2011 census, among those who answered the optional question on ethnic identification (in total 2970), the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following:[2]
| Ethnic group | Population | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2834 | |||
| NA | NA | ||
| 70 | |||
| Other | 19 | ||
| Undeclared | NA | NA |
According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:An overwhelming majority of the population of Novo Selo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 94.0% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.