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The Deputy President of the NSI Svilen Kolev, PhD participated with a report and as a moderator during the 17th International Conference on Applied Statistics, which was held in the period of 14 – 15 November 2024 in Bucharest, Romania. The event was organized by the National Institute of Statistics of Romania and the Department of Statistics and Econometrics of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

The President of NSI Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD took part in the 5th UN World Data Forum, which was held in Medellín, Colombia in the period 12-15 November 2024. The event was organized with the support of the UN Statistics Division and was hosted by the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE).

The President of NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and Maria Prokopova-Gochova, Head of the International Relations and Projects Department, took part in the 109th annual Conference of the Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes (DGINS), which was held in Tallinn, Estonia on 23-24 October 2024. The theme of this year’s conference is “Charting New Frontiers of Official Statistics”. The event is hosted by Eurostat and Statistics Estonia.

Representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe visited NSI and had a meeting with the President of the institute, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, and heads of departments from the Demographic and Social Statistics Directorate and Business Statistics Directorate.

In 2023, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Bulgaria is 185.233 billion BGN. The growth rate of GDP is 1.9% compared to 2022. The data was presented during a press conference by the President of the NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov and the Deputy President, Svilen Kolev, PhD.

“The beyond GDP agenda: past, present, visions for the future” was the theme of this year’s Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (CESS) 2024, which was attended by the President of NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov. The event was held on 15 and 16 October 2024 at the headquarters of the Banque de France in Paris and was jointly organized by Eurostat and the European Central Bank under the aegis of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC).

The updated digital library of the National Statistical Institute is now available to its readers worldwide. Users now have online access to over 1,200,000 digital pages from NSI’s book collection and can consult over 14, 000 bibliographic descriptions. Last year alone, more than 24,500 online readers were registered, who read more than 625,000 pages.

The Deputy President of the NSI Svilen Kolev, PhD was elected as a member of the Executive Body of the Committee on Monetary, Financial and Balance of Payment Statistics (CMFB) for the 2025 and 2026 mandate, after an election procedure that was held among the members of the Committee.

            Eurostat expert team was on a two-day mission in the National Statistical Institute, to assess the reliability of the data on the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP). Among the main topics of discussion were specific issues related to HICP data; the methodology for energy products in Bulgaria; the methodology for telecommunications services; specifics issues related to the house price indices, and others. Representatives of the Bulgarian National Bank and the Ministry of Finance also participated in the meeting as observers.

Deputy President of the National Statistical Institute, Svilen Kolev, PhD met in Beijing with the Deputy Commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics of China Mrs. Ruan Jianhong. Mr.