Sofia Labour Market 2019

Employment in Sofia has reached 75% of the active population, with the number of employees varying around 700 000 people in the different quarters due to seasonality. Following the current dynamics, in the next five years the city economy will add new employment predominantly in ICT and outsourcing, but will lose employment in health and trade. Due to the extremely low number of unemployed in the base period, the accuracy of their estimated number and composition is quite low; the results suggest that some 10 000 people will be unemployed, mostly with secondary education.