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Nearly 30,000 Bulgarians emigrate abroad in 2015

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Over 25,000 foreign nationals settled in Bulgaria in 2015. 25% of them arrived from Turkey, 15% came from Syria and nearly 14%-from the Russian Federation. The rest arrived from other countries, including EU member states. On the other hand, nearly 30,000 Bulgarians emigrated in 2015. Most of them were young people in active age. 17.5% of the people who left Bulgaria and settled abroad were aged twenty or under. Germany, the United Kingdom and Spain are the three most-preferred destinations for Bulgarian migrants. The national statistics reports about a very interesting trend with regard to the internal migration- over 37% of the Bulgarians changed their urban lifestyle for life in Bulgarian villages.




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