Construction industry employees Bulgaria 2021

In 2021, the number of employees in the construction industry in Bulgaria remained nearly unchanged at around 138,463 employees. Still, 2021 marked the second consecutive decline of the number of employees in this industry.
According to Eurostat employed persons are all persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, and education or training.

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Total number of employees in the construction industry in Bulgaria from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	138,463
2020	139,419
2019	142,188
2018b	137,501
2017	133,427
2016	129,742
2015	135,533
2014	135,607
2013	133,884
2012	138,711

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Release date

March 2024

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Bulgaria

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to Section F of CE Rev. 2.

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