Bulgarie

Interesting Facts About Bulgarie

• Bulgaria has one of the oldest populations in the world, with an average age of 43 years.
• Bulgaria scores high in gender equality, ranking 18th in the 2018 Global Gender Gap Report.
• Bulgaria has the highest ratio of female ICT researchers in the EU, with women making up 44.6% of the technology sector workforce.
• The majority of children in Bulgaria are born to unmarried women.
• Bulgaria has had negative population growth since 1989, with between 937,000 to 1,200,000 people—mostly young adults—leaving the country by 2005.
• A third of all Bulgarian households consist of only one person, and 75.5% of families do not have children under the age of 16.
• Bulgaria scores high in gender equality partly due to a legacy of the Socialist era, which established high levels of female workforce participation.

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Sofia

Capitale de Bulgarie