In 2016 there were considerable differences in the prices of consumer goods and services in different EU countries, Eurostat data indicate. In Denmark they equaled 139 percent of the EU average, in Ireland – 125 percent, in Luxembourg and..
Around 8 percent of Bulgarians aged 18 or over suffer from different forms of depression symptoms, indicates a Eurostat analysis on depression in the EU countries in 2015. The most widespread depression symptoms in Bulgaria are anxiety,..
Eurostat has reported that between 1990 and 2015 energy consumption in Bulgaria has decreased by as much as 33 percent. This places Bulgaria among one of the EU countries with the largest decline in this respect. The main source for the EU energy..
Eurostat data show that at the end of 2016 industrial production in the euro area and the EU sharply decreased, but at the same time Bulgaria has demonstrated substantial progress for the second consecutive month. Across the EU, a decrease of 1.0..
Mariana Kotzeva is the new Director General of Eurostat - the statistical office of the European Commission. Kotzeva took the place of former head of the office Walter Radermacher, who retired at the end of last year. Kotseva was chairwoman of the..
A Eurostat report on material deprivation of European households in 2014 has found that 37 percent of Bulgarians cannot afford regular vacations or recreation, and about 30 percent cannot go out with friends even once a month out of financial problems...
During the second quarter of the year, the government debt across the EU has gone down as a percentage of the GDP, according to a Eurostat report. At the close of the second quarter, the debt of the 28 EU members dropped to 84.3 percent of the..
Eurostat ascertains in one of its analyses that Bulgaria has leading position in terms of the growth pace in the protection of two types of intellectual property : EU trade- marks and design applications. Between 2000 and 2015 Bulgaria and Romania are..
On 1 January 2015 people aged over 80 in Bulgarian numbered a little over 331,000 or around 4.6 percent of the population, a Eurostat analysis shows. In the space of ten years the number of Bulgarians aged over 80 has gone up by almost 87,000...
Romania and Bulgaria share the first place in the European Union, ranked by poverty risk and social exclusion ; 40 percent of the total population was in this situation in 2014, a Eurostat report reads. 24.1 percent of the total population in the EU..
