Employment (15-64, all citizenships)

In 2007, Bulgaria's employment (15-64, all citizenships) increased by 4.5% compared to 2006, reaching 3,209k.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.7% of the EU-27 total of 187,733k.

Bulgaria ranks 15th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 16.2% (from 2,760k in 2002).

Source: Eurostat dataset lfsa_egan, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.