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Bulgaria: Employment in services

67.43percent · 2025+7.2% since 2015

Employment is defined as persons of working age who were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit, whether at work during the reference period or not at work due to temporary absence from a job, or to working-time arrangement. The services sector consists of wholesale and retail trade and restaurants and hotels; transport, storage, and communications; financing, insurance, real estate, and business services; and community, social, and personal services, in accordance with divisions 6-9 (ISIC 2) or categories G-Q (ISIC 3) or categories G-U (ISIC 4). Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Bulgaria from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202567.434
202467.025
202364.164
202263.216
202163.583
202062.477
201963.725
201862.989
201763.492
201662.928
201562.897
201463.095
201362.981
201262.002
201162.012
201059.909
200957.51
200856.106
200756.955
200657.419
200556.819
200456.338
200356.731
200256.632
200157.539
200053.973
199953.552
199851.295
199750.485
199650.602
199549.606
199448.41
199347.391
199246.243
199145.405

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Employment in services. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-employment-in-services (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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