Non-financial enterprises in Bulgaria produced value added of BGN 34.363 bn in 2011, showed preliminary data of the National Statistical Institute (NSI) published on the website of the institution. A total of 309,892 companies employing 1,913,087 people submitted reports on their operation. Expenses for investments and acquisition of tangible fixed assets stood at BGN 13.933 mln in 2011, specified NSI.
The value added produced by industrial enterprises reached BGN 13.950 bn last year, statistics showed. The share of the extracting sector rose by 1.7 percentage points, reaching 11.3%. Growth was also registered in the processing sector - of 0.4 percentage points, reaching 64.9%.
The share of the production and distribution of electricity and the gas sector shrank by 1.8 percentage points to 19.1%. A 0.3% decrease was reported by the water supply, sewerage, waste management and recovery sector.
The number of people employed in the industrial sector reached 631,296 last year, accounting for the largest share - 33.0% - of the total number of non-financial enterprises’ employees.
Text: klassa.bg
(31.08.2012)