BG · 2012 · tesem070
Youth employment rate (age group 20-29)
Bulgaria, 2012
In 2012, Bulgaria's youth employment rate (age group 20-29) decreased by 1.2% compared to 2011, reaching 49.9.
Bulgaria accounts for 85.3% of the EU-27 total of 58.5.
Bulgaria ranks 23rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 16.0% (from 59.4 in 2007).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem070, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.