Bulgaria💥

Main religion: Orthodox Christianity. Around 59%

Climate: Temperate continental with clearly marked four seasons. A Mediterranean influence is felt in the country's southern regions. The average annual temperature is 10.5°C. The average January temperature is around O°C. Average summer temperatures rarely exceed 30°C.


http://www.bulgariaski.com/pages/general_information_en.html

Participation in government: open government principles of transparency, public participation, responsibility, accountability and technological innovation which underpin the European legislation.

Geography:

Capital: Sophia

Total Area: 42,855 mi²

Continent shell: Europe

territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Geographic coordinates: 42.7339° N, 25.4858° E

Current population: 7,084,187
Male: 3 422 352
Female:3 661 836
Birth rate:54 250
Deaths rate: 87 007


http://countrymeters.info/en/Bulgaria

Languages: Bulgarian:, 97.84%
English: 12.25
Russian: 9.18%
Turkish : 4.58
German: 3.44%
Greek:1.33%
spanish:1.28%
French:1%


The Bulgarian government sees the introduction of new technologies in the government processes and in providing public services to the citizens as a key factor in further developing good governance and democracy in the country.


http://www.opengovpartnership.org/country/bulgaria

Others: Romanian , italian, polish, croatian, aarabic,
and dutch.


http://languageknowledge.eu/countries/bulgaria

Others: Around 9.3 percent of the Bulgarian identify as atheist, and 7.8 percent follow Islam. A number of minority religions, including Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox and Protestant Christianity make up about 2 percent of the population.


https://www.reference.com/world-view/main-religion-bulgaria-6f544d27104f447d

Public water supply - 98.9% of total population:

  • 100% urban areas
    84%in rural areas

4% of total population don’t have tapped water in villages


http://www.oieau.fr/IMG/pdf/Bardarska.pdf

Access to health services or sanitation facilities: All insured persons in Bulgaria select their family doctor (general practitioner) www.mh.government.bg

Hospitals, ambulance, medical assistance, BUSCAR

Education level and school life expectancy: 3.33.
Primary and Secondary (8 years)


https://knoema.com/atlas/Bulgaria/topics/Education/Secondary-Education/School-life-expectancy

Literacy level:
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.4%
male: 98.7%
female: 98.1%


http://www.indexmundi.com/bulgaria/literacy.html


Gross Domestic Product:
GDP per capita is US$ 6,722 according to I.M.F.


http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/bg.htm

Access to internet: 3,589,347 Internet users as of June/12, 51.0% of the population


http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/bg.htm

Transportation system:

Economy: Bulgaria has maintained strong momentum in liberalizing economic activity while taking steps to restore fiscal discipline. Public debt and budget deficits remain among the region’s lowest. Open-market policies are encouraging flows of trade and investment. Efforts are underway to revitalize the stalled privatization process.
http://www.heritage.org/index/country/bulgaria

Administrative division: Northwestern region
Northcentral region
Northeastern Region
Southeastern Region
Southcentral Region
Southwestern Region


http://psc.egov.bg/en/bulgaria-regional-structure

Government Name:
Republic of Bulgaria
Constitution:
Adopted: 1991; Overviews fundamental principles, fundamental rights and duties of citizens, the structure of the national assembly, the duties of the president, council of ministers, the judiciary, local self-government and local administration, the constitutional court, and various amendments.
Government Type:
Parliamentary Democracy

Judicial branch: Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court of Cassation (consists of a chairman and approximately 72 judges organized into penal, civil, and commercial colleges);
Supreme Administrative Court (organized in 2 colleges with various panels of 5 judges each); Constitutional Court (consists of 12 justices); note

  • Constitutional Court resides outside the judiciary
    judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court of Cassation and Supreme Administrative judges elected by the Supreme Judicial Council or SJC (consists of 25 members with extensive legal experience) and appointed by the president; judges can serve until mandatory retirement at age 65;
    Constitutional Court justices elected by the National Assembly and appointed by the president and the SJC; justices appointed for 9-year terms with renewal of 4 justices every 3 years
    subordinate courts: appeals courts; regional and district courts; administrative courts; courts martial

Definition: This entry contains the name(s) of the highest court(s) and a brief description of the selection process for members.


Source: CIA World Factbook - This page was last updated on October 8, 2016, http://www.indexmundi.com/bulgaria/judicial_branch.html

Legislative system: The Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria, adopted on July 13, 1991, proclaims the country as an integral state with local government, and it contains no provisions for autonomous territorial formations. State power is divided into three branches, namely, legislative, executive and judiciary, with a system of separated powers, checks and balances among the branches. The legislative organ is the National Assembly (the Bulgarian Parliament); the basic executive organ is the Council of Ministers (the Bulgarian Government); the judiciary is headed by the Supreme Judiciary Council and the Supreme Court of Cassation.
http://www.legislationline.org/countries/country/39

Civil rights: The Republic of Bulgaria is a parliamentary democracy with a population of approximately 7.6 million. The constitution vests legislative authority in the unicameral National Assembly (Narodno Sabranie). A minority government headed by a prime minister ruled the country. Observers generally deemed the July 2009 general elections free and fair. Law enforcement organizations reported to civilian authorities although, in some instances, law enforcement officers acted independently.


Human rights problems reported during the year included police use of force against, and mistreatment of, detained persons and members of minorities and harsh conditions in prisons and detention facilities. There were strong concerns about pressure on and intimidation of journalists; reports of discrimination against religious minority groups; and corruption in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Other problems included violence against women and children; substandard education for Romani children; harsh conditions in state-run institutions for children; trafficking in persons; and discrimination against persons with disabilities, Roma, other members of minority groups, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons.
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/eur/154417.htm

roads: Bulgaria had some 37,300 kilometers of roads, all but 3,000 of which were paved but nearly half of which fell into the lowest international rating for paved roads. 324 kilometers of high-speed highways were in service in 2005.

Sofia metro:the first six kilometres of an often-interrupted 52 km standard gauge subway project opened in Sofia.

Railways: had some 6,238 kilometers of open access track owned by the state company "National Company Railway Infrastructure", including a 125 kilometers long 760 mm narrow gauge railway

Waterways:470 km ; major river is Danube and also includes Maritsa and Iskar.

Terminals: Varna East Container Terminal,
1 Slaveikov Sq., 9000 Varna, Bulgaria.
Varna West Container Terminal,
Povelyanovo Res.district, 9160 Devnya, Bulgaria.

Chief of State: President Rosen Plevneliev
Head of Government: Prime Minister Boyko Borisov

Lora Kapelovska practices law in Sofia. She works for the law firm Landwell Bulgaria. She graduated as an LLM student from the Burgas Free University in 1995. She is a holder of LLM in European Law from the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Lora Kapelovska is an expert in competition law.


Angel Panayotov practices law in Sofia; he was admitted to the Sofia Bar in 2005. He now works for the law firm Landwell Bulgaria. He graduated as an LLM student from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski” in 2004. His area of legal practice is law of corporations and law of contracts.


Nikolay Bebov practices law in Sofia; he was admitted to the Sofia Bar in 1999. He works for the law firm Landwell Bulgaria. He is a LLM graduate from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski” in 1997. With some 10 years of experience as practicing lawyer, Nikolay Bebov is focused mostly on financial services law and securities regulations. He also lectures at seminars on Bulgarian securities regulations.

Election system: Republic of Bulgaria is a parliamentary representative democracy, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government. The Head of State is the President, who is elected for a five-year term through universal suffrage. For a President to be elected a 50% plus one absolute majority is needed. If this is not achieved in the first round, then the two candidates with the highest vote percentages compete in a second round.


Bulgaria has a unicameral legislature, the National Assembly, which consists of 240 seats directly elected by universal suffrage for a four-year term of office. Members of Parliament are elected under proportional representation, using the Hare-Niemeyer method of the largest remainder. Each one of Bulgaria’s twenty-eight administrative regions is an electoral constituency, except for the city of Plovdiv, which is divided into two constituencies, and the capital city of Sofia, which is split into three constituencies, for a total of thirty-one constituencies.
http://metapolls.net/bulgarian-electoral-system/#.WA6ymOXhBqw

Women rights: include the Law on Protection against Discrimination (2004), the Law on Countering Trafficking in Human Beings (2004), the Law on the Ombudsman (2004), and the Law on Protection against Domestic Violence (2005). At the same time, the Bill on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men was twice rejected by the National Assembly in 2002 and 2003. Although a new draft of this Bill was adopted by the Council of Ministers in 2006, it has not passed through the National Assembly.


On 1 January 2004, the Law on the Protection against Discrimination (LPD) (unofficial translation), which prohibits all forms of discrimination based on age, gender, ethnic group, national origin, education, family status, and property status, came into force. The Commission for the Protection against Discrimination is charged with ensuring the principle of equal opportunity is applied in practice.
http://www.stopvaw.org/bulgaria2

Children protection and rights status: Article 7 of the Child Protection Law stipulates that every person who has information on child abuse should report it. Article 7(2) specifically states that this duty concerns professionals who have gotten this information in course of their professional work, thus even under professional secrecy. This includes health workers, teachers and social workers.
http://eige.europa.eu/gender-based-violence/resources/bulgaria/bulgarian-child-protection-law-article-7

Protection to minorities: Minority groups include Turks, Roma, Russians, Armenians, Vlachs, Macedonians, Greeks, Ukrainians, Jews, Romanians, Tatars and Gagauz.
http://minorityrights.org/country/bulgaria/

Bulgaria is the 66th largest export economy in the world and the 45th most complex economy according to the Economic Complexity Index (ECI). In 2014, Bulgaria exported $30B and imported $34.4B, resulting in a negative trade balance of $4.44B. In 2014 the GDP of Bulgaria was $56.7B and its GDP per capita was $17.2k.
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/bgr/

Exports: The top exports of Bulgaria are Refined Petroleum ($2.82B), Refined Copper ($1.75B), Packaged Medicaments ($1.03B), Raw Copper ($952M) and Wheat ($769M), using the 1992 revision of the HS (Harmonized System) classification. Its top imports are Crude Petroleum ($3.16B), Copper Ore ($2.19B), Refined Petroleum ($1.46B), Petroleum Gas ($1.19B) and Packaged Medicaments ($1.15B).


The top export destinations of Bulgaria are Germany ($3.53B), Italy ($3.01B), Turkey ($2.72B), Romania ($2.06B) and Greece ($1.77B). The top import origins are Russia ($4.91B), Germany ($3.99B), Romania ($2.3B), Italy ($2.26B) and Turkey ($1.98B).


Bulgaria borders Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia.
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/bgr/

Imports: During the last five years the imports of Bulgaria have increased at an annualized rate of 8.3%, from $23.1B in 2009 to $34.4B in 2014. The most recent imports are led by Crude Petroleum which represent 9.2% of the total imports of Bulgaria, followed by Copper Ore, which account for 6.37%.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/imports

Agriculture products: Bulgaria is renowned for sheep's milk cheese, oriental tobacco, wine, rose attar (used in perfumery), vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs, and, particularly, natural yogurt.


http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Europe/Bulgaria-AGRICULTURE.html#ixzz4OFQiU1iz

Labor force ocuppation: Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 7%
industry: 30.1%
services: 62.9% (2014)


http://www.indexmundi.com/bulgaria/labor_force_by_occupation.html

Main industries: Energy, Utilities and Mining
Financial Services
Pubilc Sector
Real Estate
Retail and Consumer
Technology, Information, Communications and Entertainment
Transportation and Logistics
http://www.pwc.com/bg/en/industries.html

unemployement rate: Unemployment Rate in Bulgaria increased to 14.80 percent in August from 14.50 percent in July of 2016.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/youth-unemployment-rate

inflation rate: Consumer prices in Bulgaria fell 0.6 percent year-on-year in September of 2016 following 0.3 percent decline in the previous month, mostly due to a fall in cost of food and non-alcoholic beverages (-0.3 percent form +1.2 percent in August). Other main downward pressure came from transport (-3.7 percent from -7.9 percent); recreation and culture (-0.6 percent from +1 percent).
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/inflation-cpi

Official currency: bulgaria, lev
The monetary unit in the Republic of Bulgaria is the lev (BGN), which is equal to 100 stotinki (st.).
http://www.xe.com/currency/bgn-bulgarian-lev

Tourism industry: Bulgaria due to the excellent geographical location, remarkably rich nature, diverse relief and moderate continental climate. In the last three years Bulgarian tourism has been advancing progressively.
http://www.investbulgaria.com/BulgarianTourismSector.php

Freedom of expresion: The constitution protects freedom of speech and of the press, and the government generally respects these rights in practice, but many media outlets are beholden to major advertisers and owners with political agendas.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2015/bulgaria

Top universities and rank in the world :


http://www.4icu.org/bg/

Monthly income: Wages in Bulgaria decreased to 936 BGN/Month in June from 942 BGN/Month in May of 2016. Wages in Bulgaria averaged 466.84 BGN/Month from 1997 until 2016, reaching an all time high of 962 BGN/Month in April of 2016 and a record low of 30 BGN/Month in January of 1997.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/wages

GDP dedicated to provide access to internet: 3,589,347 Internet users as of June/12, 51.0% of the population, according to ITU.The following years saw several conflicts with its neighbours, which prompted Bulgaria to align with Germany in both World Wars. In 1946 it became a single-party Socialist state as part of the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/eu/bg.htm

GDP to education: PUBLIC SPENDING ON EDUCATION; TOTAL (% OF GDP) IN BULGARIA WAS REPORTED AT 4.44 IN 2008, ACCORDING TO THE WORLD BANK. PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION CONSISTS OF CURRENT AND CAPITAL PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION INCLUDES GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE), EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS SUBSIDIES FOR PRIVATE ENTITIES (STUDENTS/HOUSEHOLDS AND OTHER PRIVATES ENTITIES). THIS PAGE HAS THE LATEST RECORDED VALUE, AN HISTORICAL DATA CHART AND RELATED INDICATORS FOR PUBLIC SPENDING ON EDUCATION - TOTAL (% OF GDP) IN BULGARIA.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/bulgaria/public-spending-on-education-total-percent-of-gdp-wb-data.html


Equality policies: Bulgaria is a signatory to the United Nation’s conventions on the rights of women including: the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), ratified by Bulgaria in 1981; the Convention on the Political Rights of Women, ratified by Bulgaria in 1955; the Convention against Discrimination in Education, ratified 1962; the Equal Remuneration Convention, ratified 1956.
http://www.gender-equality.webinfo.lt/results/bulgaria.htm