BG · 2015 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Bulgaria, 2015
In 2015, Bulgaria's first residence permits issued (total) increased by 9.1% compared to 2014, reaching 9,595.
Bulgaria accounts for 0.5% of the EU-27 total of 1,992,551.
Bulgaria ranks 21st 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 136.9% (from 4,051 in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.