Employment rate of recent graduates in Bulgaria

Employment rate of recent graduates in Bulgaria was 81.2% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 0.3 pts from 2024. That is the 19th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

202581.2%

Change on 2024+0.3 pts

Rank19th of 27EU countries ranked

Series high84.22023

Series low59.22011

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Employment rate of recent graduates in Bulgaria, 2001 to 2025

%. Source: Eurostat, Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24). Retrieved 2026-10-18, published 2026-09-10.

All 25 values

Period	%
2025	81.2
2024	80.9 Series break
2023	84.2
2022	79
2021	73.9 Series break
2020	78.8
2019	80.8 Series break
2018	78.6
2017	77.7
2016	72
2015	74.6
2014	65.4 Series break
2013	67.7
2012	67.3
2011	59.2 Series break
2010	69.7 Series break
2009	73.6
2008	79.6 Series break
2007	72.3
2006	69.6 Series break
2005	67.7
2004	65.8
2003	60.6 Series break
2002	60
2001	62.5

Compared with European Union (27)

Place	2025
Bulgaria	81.2
European Union (27)	82.9

Bulgaria compared with nearby places

Under 80
80 to 83
83 to 85
85 to 87
87 and over

Employment rate of recent graduates, 2025, %. Bulgaria is outlined. Same source and period for every area shown. Source: Eurostat, European Commission. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Rankings

EU countries by employment rate of recent graduates 27 places

Definition

Employed people aged 20 to 34 who completed upper secondary or tertiary education (ISCED 2011 levels 3 to 8) one to three years before the survey and are no longer in education or training, as a percentage of all people in that group.

The indicator of the EU target that 82% of recent graduates should be employed by 2030. From the EU labour force survey. Eurostat flags series breaks (most in 2021, under the new framework regulation for social statistics); they are stored as status break.

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Eurostat. Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

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Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24) (Employment rate of recent graduates, Bulgaria, 2001 to 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table

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Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24), Employment rate of recent graduates, Bulgaria, 2001 to 2025. Eurostat, European Commission, 10 Sept. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/recent-graduates-employment-rate/bulgaria. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24). Employment rate of recent graduates, Bulgaria, 2001 to 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/recent-graduates-employment-rate/bulgaria.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24), Employment rate of recent graduates, Bulgaria, 2001 to 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/edat_lfse_24/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/recent-graduates-employment-rate/bulgaria (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  urldate = {2026-10-18},
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What is the employment rate of recent graduates in Bulgaria?

Employment rate of recent graduates in Bulgaria was 81.2% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission. That is up 0.3 pts from 2024. That is the 19th highest of 27 EU countries in 2025.

Where does this figure come from?

Eurostat, European Commission. Employment rate of people aged 20 to 34 not in education or training, 1 to 3 years after completing upper secondary or tertiary education (edat_lfse_24). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-18.

What was the highest employment rate of recent graduates in Bulgaria?

84.2% in 2023, the highest value since 2001 in this series.

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