Bulgaria's jobless rate edges down to 5.9% at end-Dec

At the end of 2019, the number of registered unemployed people was 194,715, a decrease of 3.4% compared to the year-earlier level, the agency said in a statement. 

It noted that for the first time in its history the number of registered unemployed people in December has fallen below 200,000.

A total of 216,256 unemployed people found a job with the help of labour offices countrywide last year. The number of people who found a job in December totalled 11,324.

There were 24,689 unemployed people newly-registered with labour offices in Bulgaria during the month of December.

Bulgaria's registered job vacancies in December were 7,575, most of them in the manufacturing sector - 32.5% of the total.