BG · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits — other
Bulgaria, 2020
In 2020, Bulgaria's first residence permits decreased by 28.5% compared to 2019, reaching 3,823.
Bulgaria accounts for 0.8% of the EU-27 total of 491,700.
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 7.6% (from 3,554 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.