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Bulgaria: Unemployment rate

Percent · 1989–2025 · 37 observations · forecasts to 2031 · unemp

2025
3.59%percent
Change on 2024
−0.6 pointsfrom 4.23%
Average, 2016–2025
5.03%10 years
Record high and low
18.1% (2000)low 0.0252% (1989)

Unemployment rate

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20313.20Forecast
20303.20Forecast
20293.20Forecast
20283.20Forecast
20273.90Forecast
20264.01Forecast
20253.59
20244.23
20234.39
20224.21
20215.25
20205.21
20194.28
20185.27
20176.23
20167.67

Sources

  • IMF World Economic Outlook1989–2025
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1990–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1992–2025
  • AMECO (European Commission)1995–2025
  • International Labour Organization2000–2023
  • OECD Economic Outlook2000–2025
  • Eurostat2009–2025
  • AMECO (forecast)2025–2027
  • OECD Economic Outlook (forecast)2025–2027
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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Bulgaria documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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