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Summary Table - Bulgaria

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Summary table: Bulgaria

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	2001		2011		2019
	Bulgaria	EU27	Bulgaria	EU27	Bulgaria	EU27
Resident population	8,009,142	429,481,944	7,348,328	440,247,483	6,975,761	Pro446,883,180
Resident population as % of EU27 population	1.9	100.0	1.7	100.0	Pro1.6	Pro100.0
Foreigners as % of resident population	-	-	0.5	-	1.4	-
Ageing index number of elderly people (aged 65 and over) per 100 young people (aged 0 to 14)	109.4	95.6	140.2	116.0	149.3	Pro134.7
Median age	39.3	38.4	42.5	41.6	44.5	Pro43.7
Young people (%) individuals aged 0 to 14	15.2	16.7	13.3	15.4	14.4	Pro15.1
Elderly people (%) individuals aged 65 and over	17	16	19	18	21	Pro20
Working age people per elderly person individuals aged 15 to 64 per each individual aged 65 and over	4.1	4.2	3.6	3.7	3.0	Pro3.2
Total fertility rate average number of children per woman of childbearing age	1.21	1.43	1.51	1.54	1.58	Pro1.53
Mean age of women at childbearing	25.1	29.0	27.1	30.2	27.8	Pro30.9
Births out of wedlock (%)	42.0	26.8	56.1	37.8	58.4	-
Infant mortality rate (‰) number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births	14.4	5.8	8.5	3.8	5.6	3.4
Life expectancy at birth	71.9	-	74.2	80.1	75.1	Pro81.3
Households (thousands)	-	-	3,005.7	184,224.5	2,888.5	195,593.0
Average number of persons per household	-	-	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.3
Single person households (%)	-	-	27.9	31.8	29.7	34.5
Population having less than upper secondary education (%) individuals aged 25 to 64	29.0	-	20.0	27.0	17.5	21.6
Population, aged 30 to 34, having tertiary education	23.6	-	27.3	33.4	32.5	40.3
Rate of early leavers from education and training (%)	20.5	-	11.8	13.2	13.9	10.2
No. of inhabitants per doctor	-	-	-	-	236	Pro258
Beds in hospitals per 100 thousand inhabitants	711	-	645	568	774	Pro532
Employment rate (%) number of employed aged 20 to 64 per 100 individuals of same age group	54.8	65.8	62.3	67.1	74.3	72.7
Full-time employment (%)	89.2	-	97.6	81.7	97.9	80.8
Female part-time employment (%)	3.6	-	2.6	30.3	2.4	30.6
Self-employed (%)(2)	13.6	-	11.1	15.4	10.2	14.2
Self-employed persons without upper secondary education (%)(2) ISCED 0-2 maximum	28.0	-	17.7	25.0	14.5	19.3
Employees without upper secondary education (%) ISCED 0-2 maximum	15.5	-	10.3	20.1	11.5	16.3
Employees with fixed-term contract (%)	6.8	-	4.0	15.3	4.3	15.0
Females in the total of employees with fixed-term contract (%)	47.9	-	44.3	49.6	44.2	49.8
Unemployment rate (%) number of unemployed persons aged 15 to 74 per 100 economically active people of the same age group	19.9	-	11.3	9.9	4.2	6.7
Unemployment rate of population with tertiary education (%) number of unemployed persons aged 15 to 74 with ISCED 5-6 per 100 economically active people of the same age group and level of education	8.8	-	5.1	5.8	1.9	4.2
Unemployment rate of population aged 20 to 24 (%) number of unemployed persons aged 20 to 24 per 100 same age economically active people	34.9	-	21.9	20.6	7.5	14.0
Unemployed over 1 year as % of total unemployement	62.6	-	55.9	44.0	56.9	41.8
Inactive population per 100 economically active people	94.7	-	90.4	76.6	76.7	74.2
Labour productivity per hour worked (EU27=100)(1)	33.9	100.0	42.9	100.0	48.6	100.0
National minimum wage (€) monthly average	42.0	-	122.7	-	286.3	-
Personnel in R&D FTE - full-time equivalent	14,949	s1,747,667	16,986	2,256,720	26,399	2,921,544
Total personnel in R&D in enterprises (%)	12.6	s52.6	14.4	53.7	52.4	59.6
Expenditure in R&D by business enterprise sector as % of total expenditure in R&D	20.5	s64.3	53.2	63.1	67.2	66.7
Enterprises with website or homepage (%) enterprises with 10 or more personnel	-	-	45.0	68.0	51.0	77.0
GDP per capita (PPS)(1)	5,800.0	19,200.0	11,700.0	25,600.0	16,700.0	31,300.0
Gross Public Administration debt as % of GDP	64.6	65.5	15.2	81.7	20.0	77.5
Taxes on income	24	26	14	25	15	27
Emigrants remittances as % of GDP	-	-	1.9	-	2.0	0.2
Remittances by immigrants as a % of GDP	-	-	0.0	-	0.0	0.3
Balance of trade as a % of GDP	-9.1	0.6	0.2	0.9	3.2	2.5
Current account as % of GDP	-5.4	-0.4	0.3	0.6	1.9	2.3
Private final consumption as % of GDP	68.6	55.8	62.6	55.4	59.1	53.0
Public final consumption as % of GDP	19.4	19.7	15.9	21.2	16.7	20.6
Gross fixed capital formation as % of GDP	19.4	22.7	20.9	21.1	-	22.5
Share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption	-	-	14.2	14.5	21.5	19.9
Area under organic farming	-	-	0.5	-	2.3	s8.5
Expenditure in research and development (R&D) as % of GDP	0.4	s1.8	0.5	2.0	0.8	2.2
Researchers in R&D per thousand economically active people	2.7	-	3.6	6.7	5.2	8.9
Households with Internet access at home (%)	-	-	45.0	72.0	75.0	90.0
Individuals who accessed Internet at least once a week (%) individuals aged 16 to 74	-	-	46.0	65.0	67.0	84.0
At risk of poverty threshold (PPS)(1)	1,615	-	3,499	-	5,022	-
At risk of poverty rate before social transfers (%)	43.0	-	41.7	s44.2	42.2	s43.0
At risk of poverty rate after social transfers (%)	16.0	-	22.2	s16.9	22.6	s16.5
Gini index (%)	26.0	-	35.0	30.5	40.8	s30.2
Resident tourists as % of resident population(3)	-	-	s17.5	50.8	27.2	Pro50.4
Nights spent by non-resident tourists in collective tourist accommodations (%)	66.0	-	66.6	s44.0	64.4	47.3
Resident tourists traveling abroad as % of the resident tourists(3)	-	-	s22.5	30.9	14.5	30.8
Average number of passengers per commercial air flight	-	-	107.8	101.5	143.5	133.0
Speed limits on motorways km/h	-	-	130	-	140	-

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Notes

The Summary-table shows no methodological changes (marked by breaks in series) in the data
More information about these figures is available by clicking on each indicator.

(1) - PPS – Purchasing power standards.

(2) - The figures presented include self-employed as employers and self-employed without employees.

(3) - Trips with at least four night's duration will be accounted for. Business travel is excluded.