BG · 2020 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Bulgaria, 2020
In 2020, Bulgaria's first residence permits issued (total) decreased by 23.9% compared to 2019, reaching 10,267.
Bulgaria accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 2,332,051.
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 7.0% (from 9,595 in 2015).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.