Bulgaria is in the top five of the most energy independent countries in the EU by 2018, according to Eurostat. Bulgaria's energy dependence has decreased for the period 2000-2018 - from 50% to a little over 45%. On average for the EU, energy dependence is..
In 2019, 36.5% of Bulgarians were not able to meet unexpected financial costs, the average percentage for the EU being 32. This is indicated by Eurostat data released today. Single-person households and single parents with minor children find..
Only 0.5% of employed Bulgarians say they habitually work from home, the average percentage for the EU being 5.4%. This places Bulgaria last in the list of EU member countries. These data are from a Eurostat report from 2019, i.e. they..
According to latest Eurostat data about the population of the EU countries in 2018 the population of Bulgaria was 6,957,642. Young people aged under 15 accounted for 14.3 percent of the population, people aged 14 to 64 – 64.4 percent, and those..
Almost 85 percent of people who graduated university last year in Bulgaria have found a job and are successfully implementing the knowledge gained, indicates a Eurostat analysis on the employment rate of recent graduates from higher educational..
Bulgaria is first among the countries members of the EU with the highest share of people who face severe material deprivation – almost 21 percent, or 1 in 5, indicate Eurostat data for 2018. According to Eurostat criteria people living in..
In 2017, Bulgaria has allocated the largest share of its state budget for fire safety among other EU countries, Eurostat data show. This country has spent 108 million euros on fire protection, or 21 euros per capita. After Bulgaria come Latvia,..
Bulgaria is last on the list of EU countries, alongside Latvia and Lithuania, in the per capita consumption of fruit, indicate Eurostat data. Only 37 percent of Bulgarians eat fruit every day, and 45 percent put vegetables on the table every..
For a tenth year in a row, Bulgaria is in last position out of all EU countries in overtime pay per hour. In 2018 payment of one hour of overtime work in Bulgaria stood at an average of 5.5 euro, indicate Eurostat data. The list is topped by..
The mean age of women at birth of a first child in Bulgaria is 26, for the EU this indicator is 29. The biggest share of births of a first child by women under 20 is in Romania – 13.9 percent, followed by Bulgaria – 13.8 percent, Eurostat data show...
