Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1992)
total population: 98%
male: 99%
female: 97%
Labor force: 4.3 million
by occupation: industry 33%, agriculture 20%, other 47% (1987)
@Bulgaria:Government
Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Bulgaria
conventional short form: Bulgaria
Digraph: BU
Type: emerging democracy
Capital: Sofia
Administrative divisions: 9 provinces (oblasti, singular - oblast);
Burgas, Grad Sofiya, Khaskovo, Lovech, Montana, Plovdiv, Ruse, Sofiya,
Varna
Independence: 22 September 1908 (from Ottoman Empire)
National holiday: Independence Day 3 March (1878)