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Eurostat: More than quarter of a million Bulgarians feel lonely

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About 4 per cent of Bulgarians feel lonely and they have no one to share their personal problems with, a Eurostat study focusing on the adult population in the EU shows. Averagely, about 6 percent of elderly people in the EU feel lonely and have no one to seek help from if needed, the analysis shows. If the percentage of lonely Bulgarians is applied to the total number of the population in Bulgaria, it becomes clear that over a quarter of a million Bulgarians have fallen into isolation and loneliness.



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