June 6 (SeeNews) - The gross domestic product (GDP) per person employed in Bulgaria rose by an annual 4.6% to 7,160.2 levs ($4,117/3,660 euro) in the first quarter of 2019, preliminary data from the country's statistical office showed on Thursday.
Gross value added (GVA) per person employed increased in real terms by 2.6%, while GVA per hour worked increased by 2.5% in real terms in the first three months of the year compared to the corresponding quarter of 2018, data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI) showed.
GVA per person employed in the industrial sector was 6,878.1 levs in the review period. In the services sector, an average of 6,181.0 levs gross value added was produced by a person employed. The lowest labour productivity was in the agricultural sector - 874.5 levs.
In terms of GVA per hour worked the industrial sector led by 16.2 levs followed by services with 14.5 levs and agriculture with just 2.9 levs.
A total of 3.4 million people were employed in the country's economy at the end of the first quarter. The total number of hours worked was 1.39 billion.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)