BG · 2022 · migr_resfirst
First residence permits issued (total)
Bulgaria, 2022
In 2022, Bulgaria's first residence permits issued (total) increased by 34.4% compared to 2021, reaching 15,839.
Bulgaria accounts for 0.4% of the EU-27 total of 3,564,926.
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 44.5% (from 10,958 in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset migr_resfirst, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.