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Unemployment in Bulgaria at 8 percent

The employment rate among Bulgarians aged 15 -64 during the second quarter of the year stood at 63.7 percent or 1.3 percentage points higher on a year-on-year basis, the National Statistical Institute has announced. The unemployment rate is 8 percent or 1.9 percentage points lower than one year earlier. Out of all people who are out of a job only 12.9 percent have university degrees, 48.9 percent have secondary education and 38.2 percent have primary education or less. 



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