December 7 (SeeNews) - The gross domestic product (GDP) per person employed in Bulgaria rose by 3.7% on the year in the third quarter of 2018, reaching 8,100 levs ($4,708/4,141 euro), the statistical office said on Friday.
Gross value added (GVA) per person employed and GVA per hour worked both increased by a real 2.3% year-on-year in the third quarter of 2018, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a statement.
GVA per person employed in the industrial sector was 7,799 levs in the third quarter of 2018. In the service sector, an average of 7,427 levs gross value added was produced per person employed. The lowest labor productivity was in the agricultural sector, of 2,605 levs.
The sevices and industrial sectors both created 18.7 levs of GVA per hour worked, while agriculture lagged behind with 6.7 levs per hour.
A total of 3.68 million persons were employed in the country's economy at the end of the third quarter. The total number of hours worked was 1.48 billion.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)