40% POPULATION UNDER 100 LEVS MONTHLY

Business | June 29, 2001, Friday // 00:00

40% of the Bulgarian nationals live with less than 100 levs monthly, show the last data of the National Statistics Institute (NSI). The average annual earnings per capita is worth 1,587 levs, while per month it is 132.25 levs. The difference between the 10% of wealthiest and 10% of the poorest of the population is to a considerable extent. In the destitute households 10% of the Bulgarians have annual incomes of 499 levs which means 41.58 levs monthly. The annual income of every member of the richest households amounts to 3,926 levs, or 327.17 levs monthly. 10% of the most needy households live with an annual earnings of 738 levs, or with 65.25 levs per a month. Another 40% of the Bulgarians live with 100 levs monthly. The salary forms 39.61% of the annual income per a household. It turns out that the penurious households almost don`t rely on their wages which provide only 21.23% of their annual earnings. Their budget is set up mainly out of pensions and house-farming.
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