National Statistical Institute

Close to 10% of Bulgarians fall into the category of ''extremely poor'', living with under 40% of the income earned by the middle class.

This has been shown by a research conducted by the Institute for Market Economy on the issue of poverty in Bulgaria and was presented by Petar Ganev Tuesday, as reported by OFF News.

The latest data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which was released on Monday, shows that Bulgaria's workforce registered a slight increase in 2014.

According to the data, the number of economically active persons, aged between 15 and 64, amounted to 3 308 700, which represents 69 % of the population in the same age category.

The consumer price index in February 2015, as compared to January 2015, stood at 100.2% and the monthly inflation amounted to 0.2%, according to data of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute (NSI).

The inflation rate in February 2015, as compared to December 2014, stood at -0.2%.

The annual inflation rate in February 2015, as compared to February 2014, stood at -0.5%.

In the fourth quarter of 2014, GDP at current prices amounted to BGN 22 692 million, according to data of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute.

In EUR terms GDP reached EUR 11 602 million in total and EUR 1 607 per person.

According to data published in the CIA World Factbook, Bulgarian population has dropped below 7 million people.

The data was refering to the middle of 2014, and showed that Bulgarian population in fact amounts to 6,724,716 people. According to the CIA website, the information has been gathered based on population census, migration processes, life expectancy and others.

In January 2015, Bulgarians completed more than 295 000 travels abroad, which represents an increase of 8.3 % compared to the same month of 2014.

This became clear from the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Friday.

According to preliminary data of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute (NSI), the total turnover index in the segment of "Transportation, storage and post", calculated on the basis of seasonally adjusted data, increased by 3.8% on a quarterly basis in the fourth quarter of 2014.

In the last quarter of 2014 over 790 000 Bulgarian citizens completed tourist trips, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) reports in its latest data, which was released on Friday.

This represents an increase of 15.4 % compared to the number of people, who completed tourist trips during the same period of 2013.

Bulgarian households had higher expenses at the end of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013, while their incomes remained the same.

This becomes evident from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) data on incomes and expenses of households for the last quarter of 2014, which was released on Monday.

According to preliminary data of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute (NSI), January 2015 brought a monthly inflation rate of -0.4%.

The annual inflation in January 2015 stood at -1.0%.