Bulgaria – BG

EU regions: Bulgaria

Indicator	Period	Value
Labour market policy
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2021	1.424
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2021	1.026
Life long learning
life long learning participation	2024	1.8
Precarious work
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2023	5
percentage of employees ususally working at nights	2023	3.2
Part time jobs and flexible employment
working hours on full time job	2024q4	39.2
percentage of workers usually working from home	2024	1.2
percentage of part time workers	2024q4	1.46
percentage of part time workers, men	2024q4	1.41
percentage of part time workers, women	2024q4	1.5
Minimum and average wage
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2023	37.6
monthly minimum wage in €	2025q1	551
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2025q1	931
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2023	15 997
Gender differences
gender pay gap	2023	13.5
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2024	51.7
healthy life expectancy of men vs. women	2022	118.18
gender gap in employment rate	2024	91.23
gender gap in unemployment rate	2024q4	73.33
Graduates and young people
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2023	22.6
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2024q4	8.3
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2015q4	25
NEET	2024	10.5
Gross domestic product
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2023	64
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2023	0.5
Employment
employment rate	2024q4	70.7
Social exclusion
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	32.1

More on wikipedia wikidata Q219 on OpenStreetMap Bulgaria slovensky: BG

Subregions: Northern and Eastern Bulgaria, South-Western and South-Central Bulgaria

Unemployment

Indicator	Period	Value
Unemployment
unemployment rate	2024q4	3.9
youth unemployment rate	2024q4	9.8
unemployment rate of low educated people	2024q4	15.8
Long term unemployment
long term unemployment	2024q4	1.9
share of long term unemployed	2024	51.5

Composition of population according to age group, education and economic activity, Bulgaria

Age group	Low education	Middle education	High education
Y20-29	P: 68.1 E: 27.0; U: 5.6; I: 35.5	P: 354.8 E: 178.2; U: 13.6; I: 163.0	P: 124.5 E: 101.1; U: 4.2; I: 19.2
Y30-39	P: 116.9 E: 58.7; U: 9.8; I: 48.4	P: 398.3 E: 332.9; U: 18.3; I: 47.1	P: 285.4 E: 263.6; U: 6.3; I: 15.5
Y40-49	P: 146.9 E: 85.6; U: 10.9; I: 50.4	P: 509.2 E: 447.8; U: 13.9; I: 47.5	P: 304.9 E: 289.8; U: 4.7; I: 10.4
Y50-59	P: 130.0 E: 69.0; U: 9.9; I: 51.1	P: 544.0 E: 454.0; U: 16.5; I: 73.5	P: 249.2 E: 231.4; U: 2.9; I: 14.9
Y60-69	P: 166.6 E: 37.3; U: 4.6; I: 124.7	P: 546.3 E: 217.4; U: 5.8; I: 323.1	P: 194.4 E: 102.0; U: 1.0; I: 91.4

Note: in thousands in 2023, according to labour force sample survey. P – total population, E – employed, U – unemployed, I – number of economically inactive

Demographics

Indicator	Period	Value
Demographics
number of inhabitants	2024	6 445 481
population density	2023	58.6
old-age dependency ratio	2024	38.2
Population ageing
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2024q4	2.9
aggregate replacement ratio	2024	0.44
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2024	0.45
life expectancy of a 50 year old	2022	26.8
healty life expectancy at 50 years	2022	20.4

Employment by sectors, Bulgaria

NACE r2		%	NACE r2		%
A	141.9	5%	B-E	587.7	20%
F	236.4	8%	G-I	853.9	29%
J	125.2	4%	K	65.4	2%
L	18.9	1%	M_N	203	7%
O-Q	583.2	20%	R-U	117.4	4%
TOTAL	2932.9	100%

Data for the period year 2024. Source of the data is Eurostat, table [lfst_r_lfe2en2].

From Wikipedia:

Bulgaria ( (listen); Bulgarian: България, romanized: Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Република България, tr. Republika Bǎlgariya, IPA: [rɛˈpublikɐ bɐɫˈɡarijɐ]), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 16^th-largest country.

One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Neolithic Karanovo culture, which dates back to 6,500 BC. In the 6^th to 3rd century BC the region was a battleground for Thracians, Persians, Celts and ancient Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. The Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire lost some of these territories to an invading Bulgar horde in the late 7^th century. The Bulgars founded the First Bulgarian Empire in AD 681, which dominated most of the Balkans and significantly influenced Slavic cultures by developing the Cyrillic script. This state lasted until the early 11th century, when Byzantine emperor Basil II conquered and dismantled it. A successful Bulgarian revolt in 1185 established a Second Bulgarian Empire, which reached its apex under Ivan Asen II (1218–1241). After numerous exhausting wars and feudal strife, the Second Bulgarian Empire disintegrated in 1396 and its territories fell under Ottoman rule for nearly five centuries.

Other: Bulgaria, Belgium

Neighbours: Greece, Serbia, Romania, North Macedonia, Turkey

Subregions: Northern and Eastern Bulgaria, South-Western and South-Central Bulgaria

Suggested citation: Michal Páleník: Europe and its regions in numbers - Bulgaria – BG, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/​PBG, ISBN: 978-80-970204-9-1, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10200164

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