Information Society
- ICT usage in households
- Internet usage in households and by individuals aged between 16 and 74
- Households with internet access at home
- Individuals regularly using the internet
- Individuals using the internet by purposes
- Individuals using the internet for interacting with public authorities
- Individuals having basic or above basic digital skills
- Individuals who have never used the internet
- Devices used by individuals to access the internet
- Individuals using the internet for learning activities
- Individuals using internet-connected devices or systems (Internet of things)
- Individuals carrying out activities to manage accsess to personal data on the internet
- Е-commerce
- Individuals having bought goods or services for private purposes over the internet in the last 12 months
- Individuals having bought goods or services for private purposes over the internet in the last 3 months
- Type of goods or services bought by the individuals over the internet
- Individuals having bought goods over the internet by location of seller
- Problems encountered by individuals when buying goods or services over the internet
- Individuals carrying out financial activities via a website or app
- Reasons for not buying over the internet
- Internet usage in households and by individuals aged between 16 and 74
- ICT usage in enterprises
- Internet usage in enterprises
- Enterprises with internet access
- Enterprises with fixed internet connection
- Persons employed using internet
- Enterprises having a website
- Persons employed using portable devices with mobile internet connection
- Enterprises using social media
- Enterprises using cloud computing services
- Enterprises performing data analytics
- Enterprises providing ICT training to the persons employed
- Enterprises using internet-connected devices or systems (Internet of things)
- E-commerce
- Enterprises with e-commerce sales
- Use of Automated Data Exchange (ADE)
- Enterprises using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
- Enterprises using customer relationship management (CRM) software
- Enterprises sending e-invoices suitable for automated processing
- Internet usage in enterprises
- ICT usage in households
- Internet usage in households and by individuals aged between 16 and 74
- Households with internet access at home
- Individuals regularly using the internet
- Individuals using the internet by purposes
- Individuals using the internet for interacting with public authorities
- Individuals having basic or above basic digital skills
- Individuals who have never used the internet
- Devices used by individuals to access the internet
- Individuals using the internet for learning activities
- Individuals using internet-connected devices or systems (Internet of things)
- Individuals carrying out activities to manage accsess to personal data on the internet
- Е-commerce
- Individuals having bought goods or services for private purposes over the internet in the last 12 months
- Individuals having bought goods or services for private purposes over the internet in the last 3 months
- Type of goods or services bought by the individuals over the internet
- Individuals having bought goods over the internet by location of seller
- Problems encountered by individuals when buying goods or services over the internet
- Individuals carrying out financial activities via a website or app
- Reasons for not buying over the internet
- Internet usage in households and by individuals aged between 16 and 74
- ICT usage in enterprises
- Internet usage in enterprises
- Enterprises with internet access
- Enterprises with fixed internet connection
- Persons employed using internet
- Enterprises having a website
- Persons employed using portable devices with mobile internet connection
- Enterprises using social media
- Enterprises using cloud computing services
- Enterprises performing data analytics
- Enterprises providing ICT training to the persons employed
- Enterprises using internet-connected devices or systems (Internet of things)
- E-commerce
- Enterprises with e-commerce sales
- Use of Automated Data Exchange (ADE)
- Enterprises using enterprise resource planning (ERP) software
- Enterprises using customer relationship management (CRM) software
- Enterprises sending e-invoices suitable for automated processing
- Internet usage in enterprises
Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Enterprises in 2023
In 2023, 96.3% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed had internet access. Fixed internet connection was available in 89.2% of the enterprises and the maximum download speed in 46.6% was more than 100 Mbps.
The relative share of the persons employed who had access to the internet was 39.7%. The most persons employed who used the internet were found in sector ‘Information and communication’ (92.2%) and least - in sector ‘Manufacturing’ (25.5%).
In 2023, 38.0% of the companies used social media, and 20.9% paid to advertise o...
Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2023
The annual growth tendency of the relative share of households with internet access was retained and in 2023, 88.5% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home. Over a ten-year period the relative share increased by 31.8 percentage points.
79.8% of the individuals aged between 16 and 74 years used the internet every day or at least once a week at home, work or other places, and the share of people who had never surfed the internet decreased to 11.8%.
The most preferred device to access the internet was the mobile phone (incl. smartphone) which was used by 7...
Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Enterprises in 2022
In 2022, 96.1% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed had internet access. Fixed internet connection was available in 89.1% of the enterprises and the maximum download speed in 45.7% was more than 100 Mbps.
The relative share of the persons employed who had access to the internet was 40.2%. Portable devices that allow a mobile connection to the internet for business purposes used by 22.2% and for a five-year period the relative share increased more than two times.
More than two-thirds of the enterprises (67.5%) provided the persons employed wit...
Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2022
In 2022, 87.3% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home, which was by 3.8 percentage points more compared to the previous year.
79.0% of the individuals aged between 16 and 74 years used the internet every day or at least once a week at home, at work or any other place and 61.2% took advantage of the resources of the global network several times during the day.
Individuals used the network mostly for communication as 67.3% of them carried out phone or video calls (using applications, e.g. Viber, WhatsApp, Skype, FaceTime, Messenger, Snapchat, Zoom, MS Te...
Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Enterprises in 2021
In 2021, 96.1% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed had internet access. Fixed internet connection was available in 85.7% of the enterprises and the maximum download speed in 39.8% was more than 100 Mbps.
...Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2021
In 2021, 83.5% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home, which was by 4.6 percentage points more compared to the previous year.
...Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2020
In 2020, 78.9% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home, which was by 3.8 percentage points more compared to the previous year.
...Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Enterprises in 2020
In 2020, 95.5% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed had internet access and among the big enterprises with 250 or more persons employed, the relative share was 100.0%.
...Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Enterprises in 2019
The results of the 2019 survey showed that 95.7% of the enterprises with 10 or more persons employed used computers and 93.7% had internet access.
...Information and Communication Technologies Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2019
The results of the 2019 survey on the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) in households and by individuals showed that 75.1% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home with an increase of 42.0 percentage points over a ten-year period.
...Main Results of the Survey on the Information Society in Enterprises in 2018
In 2018, 96.7% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed used computers and 94.6% had internet access.
...Main Results of the Survey on the Information Society in Households in 2018
The results of the 2018 survey on the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) in households and by individuals showed that 72.1% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home, which was a growth of 4.8 percentage points compared to the previous year.
...Main Results of the Survey on the Information Society in Enterprises in 2017
In 2017, 96.7% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed used computers and 94.6% had internet access.
...Main Results of the Survey on the Information Society in Households in 2017
The results of the 2017 survey on the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) in households and by individuals showed that 67.3% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home, which was a growth of 3.8 percentage points compared to the previous year.
...Main Results of the Survey on the Information Society in Households in 2016
The results of the 2016 survey on the usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) in households and by individuals showed that 63.5% of the households in Bulgaria had internet access at home, which was a growth of 4.4 percentage points compared to the previous year.
...Main Results of the Survey on the Information Society in Enterprises in 2016
In 2016, 93.7% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed used computers and 91.3% had internet access.
...Main Results of the Survey on the Information Society in Enterprises in 2015
In 2015, 93.0% of the non-financial enterprises with 10 or more persons employed used computers and 91.3% had internet access.
Main Results from the Survey on ICT Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2015
In 2015 59.1% of households in Bulgaria had access to the internet at home, which was a growth of 2.4 percentage point, compared to the previous year. There was also a growth of 0.9 percentage points of the individuals aged 16 - 74 years who were using internet every day or at least once per week and 31.2% of them used cloud services (storage space on the internet) for data storage and file sharing.
...Main Results from Surveyes on the Information Society in Enterprises in 2014
In 2014, the relative share of enterprises having internet access reached 91.4%, or with 2.3 percentage points more in comparison with the previous year. Information and communication technologies were most widely used by the largest enterprises (250 or more persons employed), 99.5% of them had an internet access, while in small enterprises (10 - 49 persons employed) this relative share was 89.9%. More than half of the enterprises with internet access (53.7%) maintained their own webpage or website.
...Main Results from the Survey on ICT Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2014
In 2014 56.7% of households in Bulgaria had access to the internet at home, which was a growth of 3.0 percentage point, compared to the previous year. There was also a growth of 2.5 percentage points of the individuals aged 16 - 74 years who used the internet every day or at least once per week and 21.3% of them used cloud services to store or share files on the internet.
...Main Results from Surveyes on the Information Society in Enterprises in 2013
In January 2013 the relative share of enterprises having internet access reached 89.1%, or with 1.7 percentage points more in comparison with the previous year. Information communication technology was most widely used by the largest enterprises (250 or more employed), 99.1% of them had an internet access, while in small enterprises (10 – 49 employed) this relative share was 87.4%. More than half of the enterprises (52.3%) maintained their own webpage or website.
...Main Results from the Survey on ICT Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2013
The results of the survey on the information communication technology usage by households and individuals for 2013 show that more than a half of the households (53.7%) in Bulgaria had access to the internet at home, which was a growth of 2.8 percentage point, compared to the previous year. There also was a stable trend for growth of the regular usage of internet by individuals and 51.2% of the population aged 16-74 years was using internet every day or at least once a week.
...Main Results from the Survey on ICT Usage in Households and by Individuals in 2012
In 2012 more than a half of the households (50.9%) in Bulgaria had access to the internet at home, or a growth of 5.9 percentage point is observed compared to the previous year. There was also an increase in the relative share of individuals aged 16-71 years who were using internet at least once per week.
...Main Results from Surveyes on the Information Society in Enterprises in 2012
In January 2012 the relative share of non-financial enterprises (10 and more employed) with internet access reached 87.4%, or with 0.5 percentage points more in comparison to the same period of the previous year and 48.8% had their own webpage or website.
...ICT usage and e-Commerce in Enterprises in 2011
Results from the survey on ICT usage in enterprises 2011 established a steady growth in the share of companies that rely on the increasingly usage of ICT and e-commerce to improve their own business.
...ICT usage in Households and by Individuals between 16 and 74 years old in 2011
The ICT survey in households 2011 reports high growth in the share of households having access to the Internet at home and broadband connection.
...ICT usage and eCommerce in enterprises in 2010
Information society being developed with the tendency of annually increasing usage of ICT by households, individuals and the business in Bulgaria.
...Survey on ICT usage in households and by individuals in 2010
Information society being developed with the tendency of annually increasing usage of ICT by households, individuals and the business in Bulgaria.
...Information and communication technologies usage and eCommerce in enterprises 2009
Data on ICT usage in enterprises survey show the widely use of Internet by the business. The growth rate observed for the period 2004 - 2009 is 22.1 percentage points and in 2009 reaches 83.9%. Broadband penetration is increasing faster during the last 6 years (41.2%) and 69.6% of the enterprises have broadband connection to the Internet during 2009.
...Survey on ICT usage in households and by individuals aged between 16 and 74
ICT penetration in the households has been increased vastly in the last few years and the survey results confirm the fact that the internet services become popular and preferable by more and more households in the country.
...Sustainable development of Bulgaria 2005 - 2016
The National Statistical Institute offers to the users the overview publication ‘Sustainable Development of Bulgaria 2005 - 2016’. The publication contains statistical indicators elaborated in conformity with the System of Sustainable Development Indicators developed by EUROSTAT.
The data is systematized in the following sections: Socioeconomic development; Sustainable consumption and production; Social inclusion; Demographic changes; Public health; Climate change and clean energy; Sustainable transport; Natural resources; Global partnership; Good governance.
Main objective ...
Bulgaria 2009 - Statistical Panorama
The National Statistical Institute annual publication Bulgaria 2009 - Statistical Panorama (in Bulgarian and summary in English) is available to users of statistical information. In the issue are analyzed the demographic, social and economic development of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2009. Comparisons with the previuous 2008, the basic 2000 and the year 1995 are also made. The publication considers trends and structural changes occurring in the country. Results from pilot Eurostat projects and one-time surveys in the respective fields are being used.
<...Sustainable Development of Bulgaria 2008
The National Statistical Institute offers to the users of statistical information the annual publication “Sustainable Development of Bulgaria 2008”. The issue is bilingual (Bulgarian/English) and is structured in sections and subsections, as each subsection contains short analytical text and charts.
The information is systematized in the following sections:
- Socioeconomic development;
- Sustainable consumption and production;
- Social inclusion;
- Demographic changes;
- Public health;
- Climate chang...
Statistical Reference Book 2009
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information the annual publication - Statistical Reference Book 2009 in English. It is a concise form of the same issue in Bulgarian.
The issue is with a new design and enrich contents. For the first time are included methodological and analytic notes towards all chapters. The information is illustrated with a rich graphic materials.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural ...
Bulgaria 2008 - Statistical Panorama
The National Statistical Institute annual publication Bulgaria 2008 - Statistical Panorama (in Bulgarian and summary in English) is available to users of statistical information. In the issue are analyzed the demographic, social and economic development of the Republic of Bulgaria in 2008. Comparisons with the preceding years are made and the tendencies of the development and the current structural changes are considered.
The publication is formed topically by sections, as each section contains short analytical text with charts and tables. The mai...
Sustainable Development of Bulgaria 2007
The National Statistical Institute offers to the users of statistical information the new annual publication Sustainable Development of Bulgaria 2007. The issue is bilingual (Bulgarian/English) and is structured in sections and subsections, as each subsection contains short analytical text and charts.
The information is systematized in the following sections:
• Socioeconomic development;
• Sustainable consumption and production;
• Social inclusion;...
Statistical Reference Book of the Republic of Bulgaria 2008
The National Statistical Institute presents to users of statistical information one of its main publications - Statistical Reference Book of the Republic of Bulgaria 2008 in English. It is a concise form of the same issue in Bulgarian.
The Statistical Reference Book presents topical information on the demographic processes as well as the economic, social and cultural development of the Republic of Bulgaria for the 2004 - 2007 period.
The publication presents data on main macroeconomic indicators of the national economy - gross dom...
