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Unemployment falls to 6.3 percent

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In the second quarter of 2017, the level unemployment rate in Bulgaria has fallen to 6.3 percent or by 1.7 percent points on the same period in 2016, the National Statistical Institute has reported. The employment rate for population between aged 15 – 64 years is 67.2%, or 3.5 percentage points higher than the second quarter of 2016.



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