Bulgaria - BG

EU regions: Bulgaria

indicator	period	value
long term unemployment	2021q4	2.2
share of long term unemployed	2021q4	54.6
GDP per capita in PPS of EU average	2020	55
unemployment rate	2021q4	4.6
employment rate	2021q4	68.5
number of inhabitants	2021	6 916 548
population density	2019	63.4
public expenditure on labour market policies as % of GDP	2019	0.555
public expenditure on active labour market policies	2019	0.16
working hours on full time job	2021q4	39.5
percentage of workers usually working from home	2021	2.8
percentage of employees ususally working on Sunday	2021	6.3
percentage of employees with temporary contracts	2021q4	3.3
percentage of part time workers	2021q4	1.59
percentage of part time workers, men	2021q4	1.22
percentage of part time workers, women	2021q4	2.01
gender pay gap	2020	12.7
employment of mothers of more than 3 children	2021	46.8
life long learning participation	2021	1.8
youth unemployment rate	2021q4	15.9
unemployment rate of youth with elementary education	2021q2	33.4
unemployment rate of youth with secondary education	2021q4	15.6
unemployment rate of youth with tertiary education	2015q4	25
NEET	2021q4	17.8
unemployment rate of low educated people	2021q4	12.6
unemployment rate – over 55 years	2021q4	3.9
people at risk of poverty or social exclusion	2020	32.1
aggregate replacement ratio	2020	0.34
aggregate replacement ratio – females	2020	0.32
old-age dependency ratio	2021	34.1
gender gap in employment rate	2021q4	89.61
gender gap in unemployment rate	2021q4	85.71
Payable interest of public debt as % od GDP	2021	0.5
minimum monthly was as aproportion of average monthly earnings in industry and services	2020	43.1
monthly minimum wage in €	2022q1	332.34
monthly minimum wage in PPS	2022q1	604.13
annual net earnings of a full-time single worker without children earning an average wage in PPS	2021	12 637

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

age group	low education	middle education	high education
Y20-29	P: 112.7 E: 42.8; U: 8.0; I: 61.9	P: 424.8 E: 214.2; U: 17.6; I: 193.0	P: 142.8 E: 114.6; U: 6.6; I: 21.6
Y30-39	P: 160.7 E: 80.7; U: 14.9; I: 65.1	P: 473.2 E: 386.5; U: 22.1; I: 64.6	P: 317.2 E: 285.5; U: 7.2; I: 24.5
Y40-49	P: 164.3 E: 94.4; U: 13.9; I: 56.0	P: 564.9 E: 494.6; U: 19.0; I: 51.3	P: 321.6 E: 299.6; U: 7.6; I: 14.4
Y50-59	P: 158.6 E: 82.2; U: 12.4; I: 64.0	P: 558.5 E: 456.2; U: 17.5; I: 84.8	P: 235.3 E: 216.2; U: 3.0; I: 16.1
Y60-69	P: 193.7 E: 42.4; U: 5.5; I: 145.8	P: 517.2 E: 177.1; U: 6.7; I: 333.4	P: 218.5 E: 102.6; U: 1.4; I: 114.5

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

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 16th-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 6th 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 7th 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: EU regions - Bulgaria - BG, IZ Bratislava, retrieved from: https://www.iz.sk/en/projects/eu-regions/BG

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