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..
Eurostat data concerning the number of police officers in the countries of the EU in 2017 indicate that in Bulgaria there are 335 officers in uniform per 100,000 people, or one police officer per 300. The average for the EU is one police officer..
12% of the Bulgarian companies complained with delayed payments by contractors or the state in 2017, Eurostat statistics shows. Thus, Bulgaria ranked in the middle of the Eurostat ranking under this indicator. 20% of the companies in Italy had problems..
Bulgaria has the highest hospitalization rate in the EU, though regarding length of stay in hospital the country is second to last, Eurostat data show. This means patients in Bulgaria are admitted to hospital most often, but spend very little..
Households in Bulgaria spend 1.7 percent of their total consumption expenditure on alcoholic beverages, a Eurostat report indicates. This ranks Bulgaria in 15 th position put of all 28 countries members of the EU. Over the 2007-2017 period,..
An average of 68% of the young people in the EU aged between 16 and 29 live with their parents, data of Eurostat show. 73% of the young men and 63% of the young women in the European Union live with their parents. In Bulgaria over 60% of the young..
Nearly 62% of the young Bulgarians aged between 15 and 29, or nearly two-thirds of Bulgaria’s young generation, live in overcrowded housing, data of Eurostat on the living conditions in the EU in 2017 show. An average of 27% of the EU citizens live in..
