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GDP per capita, expressed in Purchasing Power Standard, in Bulgaria was the lowest in the European Union in 2018, at half the EU average. This is according to figures released […]
Of the total 3.14 million people in employment in Bulgaria in 2018, about 342 100 were self-employed, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said o ...
A total of 85 895 foreigners were resident in Bulgaria in 2018, according to official statistics released by European Union statistics agency Eurostat ...
About 43.5 per cent of Bulgarians live in overcrowded households, while in the country, 67.2 per cent of non-EU citizens are in overcrowded households ...
In European Union countries in 2017, the percentage of children aged under five considered to be in good or very good health ranged from 92.4 per cent in Estonia to […]
In January 2019, Bulgaria had the lowest gross minimum wage in the European Union, at the equivalent of 286 euro before taxes are deducted, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on […]
Thirty-seven per cent of people in Bulgaria could not afford to keep their homes adequately warm, the highest percentage in the European Union, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on January […]
Thirty-two per cent of pensioners in Bulgaria were at risk of poverty in 2017, according to figures released on January 15 2019 by EU statistics agency Eurostat. This was the […]
The largest drop in spending on alcohol in a European Union country, as a share of total household spending, between 2007 and 2017 was in Bulgaria, EU statistics agency Eurostat […]
Consumption per capita in Bulgaria in 2017 was 54 per cent of the European Union average, the lowest in the bloc, according to figures released on December 13 by EU […]
