Bulgaria

Gross value added, total (current prices)

€91.4B

country total

GVA — agriculture, forestry & fishing (A)

€2.5B

country total

GVA — industry (B–E)

€17.8B

country total

GVA — manufacturing (C)

€13.1B

country total

GVA — construction (F)

€4.4B

country total

GVA — wholesale/retail, transport, ICT (G–J)

€29.5B

country total

Net disposable household income per capita (NUTS-2 source)

€7,990

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GDP per capita in PPS (purchasing-power adjusted)

26,364 PPS

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GDP per capita (current prices, EUR)

€16,286

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Gross fixed capital formation — investment (total economy)

€85.1B

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Investment in manufacturing capex (GFCF, NACE C)

€11.7B

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Compensation of employees (total wage bill)

€198.6B

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GVA — real estate activities (L)

€7.3B

country total

GVA — information & communication (J)

€7.7B

country total

GVA — finance, real estate & professional (K–N)

€20.0B

country total

GVA — public admin, health & education (O–U)

€17.2B

country total

Employment, total persons

3.5m

country total

Self-employed persons

834.2k

country total

Employment in manufacturing (C)

573.4k

country total

Activity rate, 15–64 (NUTS-2 source)

73.4%

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Youth unemployment rate (15–24)

13.8%

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Active enterprises (business economy, all sizes)

404.3k

country total

Enterprise births

43.4k

country total

Enterprise deaths

66.6k

country total

3-year enterprise survival rate

5.1%

pop-weighted avg

EPO patent applications

39.2

country total

EPO patent applications per million inhabitants

6 /M

pop-weighted avg

R&D expenditure as % of GDP

0.6%

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Employment in high-tech sectors (% of total)

5.1%

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Tertiary education attainment, age 25–64

35.6%

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Tertiary attainment, age 25–34 (young talent pool)

40.5%

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Adult participation in learning, age 25–64 (last 4 weeks)

6.1%

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Knowledge workers — tertiary-educated & in science/tech (% of labour force)

24.6%

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Scientists & engineers (% of labour force)

8.0%

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Households with internet access

92.7%

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Nights spent at tourist accommodation (total)

27.6m

country total

Passenger cars per 1,000 inhabitants

484 /1k

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Distinct public-transport stop locations within the region (GTFS feeds, deduplicated across overlapping feeds by coordinate). A measure of transit-network extent.

3.8k

country total

Public-transport stops per 100,000 inhabitants — transit service density relative to population (GTFS feeds, coordinate-deduplicated).

78.3

pop-weighted avg

Distance from the region centroid to the nearest major (large) airport, in km - air-connectivity accessibility. Lower is better.

54.5

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Number of major (large) airports within 100 km of the region centroid - air-hub catchment richness.

29

country total

Population aged 15–64 (working age)

4m

country total

Population aged 65+

1.5m

country total

Population aged under 15

901.8k

country total

Median age of population

47.4 yrs

pop-weighted avg

Old-age dependency ratio (65+ / 15–64)

39.0%

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Crude rate of total population change

-1.2 /1k

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Crude rate of net migration plus adjustment

6.1 /1k

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Crude birth rate

8.3 /1k

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Crude death rate

15.6 /1k

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Live births

53.4k

country total

Deaths

100.7k

country total

Total age-dependency ratio (young+old / 15-64)

61.6%

pop-weighted avg

Total fertility rate (births per woman)

1.71

pop-weighted avg

Population density (persons per km²)

245 /km²

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At risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE)

29.0%

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Life expectancy at birth

75.9 yrs

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Hospital beds per 100k inhabitants

808 /100k

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Mortality, all causes (age-standardised rate)

2,120 /100k

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Cancer mortality (age-standardised rate)

219 /100k

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Intentional homicides per 100k inhabitants

1.2 /100k

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Robberies per 100k inhabitants

14.2 /100k

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Burglaries per 100k inhabitants

46.2 /100k

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Thefts per 100k inhabitants

382 /100k

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Road traffic deaths per million inhabitants

74 /M

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Elevation at region centroid (Copernicus DEM)

465 m

pop-weighted avg

Hot days ≥30°C (avg per year)

30 days/yr

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Frost days ≤0°C (avg per year)

71 days/yr

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Heavy-precipitation days ≥20mm (avg per year)

6 days/yr

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NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) annual mean concentration — a traffic / combustion pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data). Lower is better.

18.7

pop-weighted avg

O3 (ground-level ozone) annual mean concentration — a summer-smog pollutant; mean across EEA monitoring stations within the region (verified E1a data).

49.9

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