12% of the Bulgarian companies complained with delayed payments by contractors or the state in 2017, Eurostat statistics shows. Thus, Bulgaria ranked in the middle of the Eurostat ranking under this indicator. 20% of the companies in Italy had problems..
Bulgaria has the highest hospitalization rate in the EU, though regarding length of stay in hospital the country is second to last, Eurostat data show. This means patients in Bulgaria are admitted to hospital most often, but spend very little..
Households in Bulgaria spend 1.7 percent of their total consumption expenditure on alcoholic beverages, a Eurostat report indicates. This ranks Bulgaria in 15 th position put of all 28 countries members of the EU. Over the 2007-2017 period,..
An average of 68% of the young people in the EU aged between 16 and 29 live with their parents, data of Eurostat show. 73% of the young men and 63% of the young women in the European Union live with their parents. In Bulgaria over 60% of the young..
Nearly 62% of the young Bulgarians aged between 15 and 29, or nearly two-thirds of Bulgaria’s young generation, live in overcrowded housing, data of Eurostat on the living conditions in the EU in 2017 show. An average of 27% of the EU citizens live in..
Close to 53 percent of Bulgarians were unable to cope with unexpected financial expenses last year, Eurostat data indicate. The average for the EU stands at 34 percent. This applies most often to one-parent families and elderly couples...
According to a Eurostat analysis, Bulgaria is the European Union country with the highest share of women employed in the IT sector. In Bulgaria, around 66 percent of the people working in IT are men, whereas the average percentage for the EU..
Retail sales in Bulgaria have increased for the sixth consecutive month after the decline registered in the first two months of 2018, data of Eurostat shows. Meanwhile, retail sales in the whole European Union remained at their June levels, which..
The prices of food products, consumer goods and services in Bulgaria are lowest as compared to other EU member states, analysis of Eurostat for 2017 shows. Bulgaria is the EU country with cheapest food, clothing, electricity, water, heating,..
A Eurostat analysis shows that in 2016 around 30 percent of Bulgarians, or almost one in three, travelled at least once a year for the purpose of tourism inside the country or abroad. For the citizens of Europe, this indicator stands at 62..