Employment — national citizens

In 2007, Bulgaria's employment increased by 4.5% compared to 2006, reaching 3,204k.

Bulgaria accounts for 1.8% of the EU-27 total of 176,459k.

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 16.3% (from 2,755k in 2002).

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