Plovdiv is the second largest city in Bulgaria, according to the national stistics data. Plovdiv Municipality, featuring just the city, without the neighboting villages, had a population of 348,000 people.
For the year 2008, the newborn babies were 7257, which is 261 babies more than the previous year; featuring 78 couples with twin babies and 2 ones with triplets. The people who lived their 100th birthday were 24 -most of them living in Plovdiv and Assenovgrad. the oldest person is a 109 year-old woman living in the town of Hisar.