September 5 (SeeNews) - The gross domestic product (GDP) per person employed in Bulgaria increased by an annual 3.5% to 8,011.8 levs ($4,520/4,096 euro) in the second quarter of 2019, the statistical office said on Thursday, citing preliminary data.
Gross value added (GVA) per person employed rose in real terms by 4.4%, while GVA per hour worked grew by 4.5% in real terms in the April-June period of 2019 compared to the corresponding quarter of last year, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.
GVA per person employed in the industrial sector was 7,776.7 levs in the review period. In the services sector, an average of 7,187.3 levs gross value added was produced by a person employed. The lowest labour productivity was in the agricultural sector - 1,469.8 levs.
In terms of GVA per hour worked the industrial sector led by 18.0 levs, followed by services with 17.3 levs and agriculture with just 3.6 levs.
A total of 3.6 million people were employed in the country's economy at the end of the second quarter, according to NSI. The total number of hours worked was 1.52 billion.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)