site.btaBulgaria's Employment Rate Increases in Q1 of 2025, Y/Y

In the first quarter of 2025, there were 2.91 million employed people, of whom 1.54 million were men and 1.36 million - women, show National Statistical Institute data published here on Wednesday. The employment rate for the population aged 15 years and over was 52.8%, 59.1% for men and 47.2% for women.

The employment rate increased by 0.2 percentage points in comparison with the same quarter of 2024 and reached 70.4%. The unemployment rate was 3.9% - down by 1.1 percentage points compared to the previous year.

Some 1.99 million people worked in the service sector (68.5% of all employed), some 780,100 were employed in the industry sector (26.8%) and around 137,900 worked in agriculture, forestry and fishing.

There were some 116,700 unemployed persons, of whom 63,000 thousand (53.9%) men and 53,700 (46.1%) women.