According to the preliminary data, the Gross domestic product (GDP) per person employed increased in real terms by 1.5% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
The number of persons employed in the economy is 3 474.6 thousand and the total number of hours worked is 1 430.3 million. Compared with the same quarter of the previous year the structure of employment by economic sector in the first quarter of 2025 shows an increase in the relative share of Service sector and decrease in the Agriculture and Industrial sectors.
The GDP per person employed is 13 128.9 BGN and GDP per hour worked is 31.9 BGN.
Gross value added (GVA) per person employed in the first quarter of 2025 increased by 1.2% compared to the first quarter of 2024. GVA per hour worked increased in real terms by 2.5%.
The GVA per person employed in the Service sector is 12 017.2 BGN and GVA per hour worked is 28.3 BGN according to the preliminary data for the first quarter of 2025. In the Industrial sector, an average of 12 142.9 BGN GVA is produced by person employed or an average of 28.3 BGN GVA per hour worked. The lowest labor productivity is in the Agricultural sector 1 261.5 BGN GVA per person employed and 4.1 BGN per hour worked.
Methodological Notes
- Object of the Labour Force Survey is the permanent population of the country, including temporary workers abroad, while the employment data in ESA 2010 are defined in terms of resident production units that can hire labor both from the country and abroad.
- Persons on temporary military service are part of the employees under ESA 2010, but are not recorded by the Labour Force Survey.
10. The preferred indicator for the assessment of the labor factor in the composition of the labor productivity is man hours worked - this indicator represents more accurately the actual work input in the production process - the Eurostat website - http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat.
11. Comparison of indicators of labor productivity over time requires the elimination of the influence of prices in the value of indicators for the results from the economic activity. For this purpose, GDP and GVA of the current period are presented at constant prices of the base period.
12. Data for labor productivity are published on the website of NSI and in INFOSTAT - quarterly and annual time series.
Year | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
2019 | 7449.2 | 8372.9 | 8756.3 | 10040.1 |
2020 | 7754.6 | 8117.7 | 9282.5 | 10428.8 |
2021 | 8722.2 | 9378.6 | 10651.5 | 12194.9 |
2022 | 10180.8 | 11262.8 | 12584.1 | 14841.1 |
2023 | 11747.7 | 12319.6 | 13478 | 15695.9 |
2024* | 12648.7 | 13439.3 | 14756.9 | 16835.9 |
2025* | 13128.9 |
Year | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
2019 | 18.3 | 20 | 21.8 | 23.8 |
2020 | 19 | 20.9 | 23.1 | 25.3 |
2021 | 21.4 | 23.5 | 26.8 | 29.3 |
2022 | 24.9 | 28.1 | 32 | 35.7 |
2023 | 27.3 | 30.4 | 33.7 | 36.9 |
2024* | 30.3 | 33.8 | 37.5 | 40.2 |
2025* | 31.9 |
Year | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
2019 | 106.6 | 106.2 | 104.5 | 104.6 |
2020 | 101.4 | 94.2 | 100.8 | 98 |
2021 | 105.7 | 107.3 | 107.4 | 109.4 |
2022 | 103.5 | 103.9 | 102.4 | 102.4 |
2023 | 99.8 | 100.5 | 102.2 | 100.7 |
2024* | 101.2 | 100.6 | 101.7 | 103.1 |
2025* | 101.5 |
* Preliminary data.
** The volume indices are calculated based on the values of the corresponding indicator at constant prices of 2020.
Year | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
2019 | 106.1 | 106.1 | 104.5 | 104.5 |
2020 | 101.3 | 101.3 | 100.7 | 100.2 |
2021 | 105.8 | 104.4 | 108.4 | 108 |
2022 | 102.8 | 103.6 | 103.5 | 102.7 |
2023 | 95.1 | 99.5 | 100.5 | 98.4 |
2024* | 104.2 | 102.7 | 103.3 | 104.8 |
2025* | 102.8 |
* Preliminary data.
** The volume indices are calculated based on the values of the corresponding indicator at constant prices of 2020.
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