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The UN expects a slowdown in growth of Bulgaria’s economy in 2023

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The war in Ukraine is putting the world economy to the test, and UN experts are presenting an outlook for 2023 with the slowest growth rate in a decade.

For Bulgaria the outlook is for a slowdown of growth from the expected 3% for 2022 down to 1.5% for 2023. This is an index which places Bulgaria among the best-performing countries in the EU, because the projected growth rate for the entire union is 0.2% in 2023. In 2024, the growth of the Bulgarian economy is expected to pick up, reaching 3%. Inflation in Bulgaria is expected to slow down from the expected 14% in 2022 to 7.5% in 2023, and to 3.2% in 2024. The labour market remains stable. According to UN estimates, in 2022 unemployment stood at 5.3%, and will reach 4.3% in 2023. 



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