Bulgaria's jobless rate drops to 6.65% in Aug

Year-on-year, the country’s unemployment rate fell by 1.3 percentage points on August, the employment agency said in a statement on Friday.

The number of unemployed people registered with the labour offices countrywide fell by an annual 16.5% to 218,436 as at end-August. On a monthly comparison basis, the number of unemployed people dropped by 2,448 in August.

The number of people who found a job in August totalled 18,054. There were 18,856 registered job vacancies in August. The highest number of vacancies was registered in manufacturing – 4,926.

Bulgaria, a nation of some 7.1 million, had an active population of 4.3 million as at end-2016, according to the country's statistical office, NSI.