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Date stated in the original: 1 October 2015. Review note: 6 November 2026.

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Bulgaria’s Economic Indicators, September 2015 — image from the original website

ECONOMIC INDICATORS (source: National Statistical Institute — NSI and Bulgarian National Bank — BNB)

• Inflation recorded in July 2015: 0% compared with the previous month; −0.2% year on year;

• GDP growth of +2.2% at the end of the second quarter of 2015 compared with the same period in 2014; • the country’s employment rate was 62.4% in the second quarter of 2015 (+1.4% year on year);

• Unemployment stood at 9.9% in the second quarter of 2015 (−1.5% year on year);

• Retail turnover fell by 0.6% in July compared with June, while rising by 0.1% year on year;

• −0.7%: the change in the industrial production index recorded in July compared with the previous month (+3.4% year on year);

• 99.5%: the producer price index in July (-0.5% compared with the previous month and -0.7% compared with the same period of 2014);

• 99.7% seasonally adjusted construction output index in July (-0.3% compared with the previous month and -0.2% compared with the same period in 2014).