March 15 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria’s jobless rate fell by 0.2 percentage points month-on-month to 6.2% in February, the government's Employment Agency said on Friday.
Compared to February 2018, Bulgaria’s jobless rate was 0.8 pp lower, the Employment Agency said in a statement.
A total of 205,013 people were unemployed in February, of which 23,446 newly-registered with labour offices during the month.
The number of people who found a job in the second month of the year totalled 19,478.
There were 14,875 registered job vacancies in February. The highest share of vacancies was registered in the manufacturing sector, 25.8% of the total.