20.01.2021

400,000 people have lost their jobs since the pandemic began

More than 400,000 people have lost their jobs since the beginning of the Covid pandemic in Bulgaria at the beginning of last year. This is shown by the latest data of the NSI and the Employment Agency.

In the week of January 11-17 alone, 7,600 people registered with the Labor Offices, and the number of people employed through the offices is almost twice as low - 3,600.

For the period from February 3, 2020 to January 17, 2021, the newly registered unemployed in the Labor Offices are a little over 404 thousand people. For the same period, 244 thousand people started working through the Labor Offices throughout the country.

Of all the registered unemployed, most are in Sofia district - over 46 thousand people. In second place is Plovdiv district with 34 thousand people, followed by Blagoevgrad, Burgas and Varna with unemployed in the range between 26 thousand and 28 thousand people.