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...
The share of women in the government sector in Bulgaria has reached 40 percent, considerably exceeding the EU average, latest Eurostat data show. Over the past five years their number has gone up by almost 10 percentage points. There are 5..
Five out of the seven European regions with the lowest living standards are in Bulgaria, Eurostat data show. In 2017, regional GDP per capita, expressed in terms of purchasing power standards, ranged from 31 percent of the European Union..
Almost half of Bulgarians who own a smartphone say that when using or installing an app on the smartphone they have never restricted or refused its access to personal data, a Eurostat survey indicates. The lowest self-data protection is in the..
In 2017, the largest share of people who say they could not afford to heat their home was recorded in Bulgaria – 37 percent, according to a Eurostat survey. On average, 8 percent of the EU population said in an EU-wide survey that they could..
