Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2024 All Rights Reserved

Unemployment in 11 districts of Bulgaria is over 10%

Photo: BGNES

The Employment Agency has announced that in March when the state of emergency was declared, unemployment in 11 provinces of Bulgaria exceeded 10 percent, in comparison to an average level of 6.7 percent for the country.

The highest level is in Vidin - 14.9 percent, and the lowest in Sofia-city - 2.3 percent. Averagely,seven unemployed people compete for one job vacancy in this country. The number of registered unemployed with higher education reaches 17.1 percent. Nearly 57.9 percent of the unemployed people registered in March were women and more than 40 percent were people over the age of 50.




Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

400 foreign students with temporary protection will study at Bulgarian universities

400 foreign citizens who have been granted temporary protection status in Bulgaria will study at Bulgarian state universities in the new 2024/2025 academic year. The number of students was approved by a government decision. The students will be..

published on 9/27/24 5:18 PM

Election campaign in Bulgaria has started

At the launch of the election campaign for the upcoming extraordinary parliamentary elections on October 27, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev reported that the efforts of the executive power to eliminate distortion of the..

published on 9/27/24 3:27 PM

Bulgaria must send changes to the Recovery and Resilience Plan by October 20 in order not to lose funds

The changes to the Recovery and Resilience Plan must be sent no later than October 20, so that the European Commission can accept them and Bulgaria does not lose funds. This was stated at a briefing by the caretaker Minister of..

published on 9/27/24 2:55 PM