BG · 2022 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits — work
Bulgaria, 2022
In 2022, Bulgaria's first residence permits increased by 83.7% compared to 2021, reaching 4,621.
Bulgaria accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 1,265,871.
Bulgaria ranks 24th 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 153.6% (from 1,822 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.