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Every Third Bulgarian Lives in Dire Straits
Every third Bulgarian lives in dire material straits. 78.5% of households in the country have at their disposal a total income per one person below the means necessary to live.
BGN 2,235 are needed for a four-member family in order for them to live in a normal way in September.
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Over 50% of Bulgarian Youths Live in Inferior Living Conditions
More than half of Bulgarians between 15 and 29 years of age live in inferior living conditions, showed an analysis of Eurostat, cited by BTA.
Bulgaria Posts EU's Biggest Growth in Tourist Overnights for 2016
Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said the country has registered a 18% year-on-year increase in tourist overnight stays for the first six months of 2016.
This is the best result within the EU, Angelkova has told Focus Radio, citing Eurostat data.
There were more than 8 million overnights between January and June, according to the minister.
Every 20th Bulgarian at Age Over 80
Until January 1, 2015, people at the age of over 80 in Bulgaria were over 331,000 or 4.6% of the entire population, reported Eurostat in an analysis on elderly people in the EU-28 in the period 2005-2015.
This means that almost every 20th person in Bulgaria is over the age of 80.
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Athenians least happy residents of EU's 28 capitals
Athenians are the least satisfied with life in their city out of the European Union's 28 capitals, though they like it better than they did four years ago, according to a recent report published by Eurostat, the European Union's statistical agency.
Juncker sees no need for extra measures to conclude Greek bailout review
Greece should not need extra measures to wrap up an ongoing bailout review with lenders, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has said admitting however that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have to bridge their diverging assessments about the state of the Greek economy.
Bulgaria Leads Quarterly Rise in House Prices in EU in Q4'2105
House prices in the European Union rose by 3.8% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, Eurostat has announced.
Compared with the third quarter of 2015, house prices rose by 0.2% in the EU in the fourth quarter, the statistical office of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday, citing preliminary data.
Bulgaria Spent 1.4% of GDP on Defence in 2014, Above EU-28 Average
Defence expenditure amounted to 1.3% of GDP for the EU-28 and 1.2% of GDP for the 19 countries of the euro area in 2014, according to new data from the European Union's statistical office (Eurostat)
Greek fertility rate one of the lowest in EU, says Eurostat
According to Eurostat data, there were just over 5 million new births registered in the EU in 2014, with France recording the highest fertility rate. The data indicated the average age a woman has her first child is 29 years old. Greece had 92,000 new births in 2014, with Greek women bearing their first child at 30 years old.
Squabbles Over Data Put Bosnian Census at Risk
Members of the three statistical agencies of Bosnia, the state agency and those of the two entities, have been unable to agree on the methodology to elaborate the results of the coungtry's first post-war census, raising fears that publication might not be possible by the July 1 legal deadline.
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