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The theme of this year’s European Statistical Forum, which was attended by the President of NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD is “Closing the data gaps on climate change”. The event took place in Brussels, Belgium on 16-17 January 2025 and was hosted by Eurostat and Directorate-General Statistics of the European Central Bank. In the opening session, the Commissioner for Economy and Productivity; Implementation and Simplification, Valdis Dombrovskis, whose area of responsibility also includes Eurostat, addressed the participants.

The National Statistical Institute published an electronic newsletter about its international cooperation activities in 2024. The newsletter is prepared by the “International Relations and Projects” Department and is available in Bulgarian and English language. The document contains information and photographic material about the participation of the NSI’s management in high-level forums and meetings within the European Statistical System, the UN Statistical System and other international organisations. 

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) calculated by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) is in line with the European Union (EU) requirements and is comparable to that of other Member States. This is the main finding of the Eurostat report, which reflects the results of an assessment of Bulgaria's compliance with the existing legal framework and established recommendations for HICPs, as well as other guidelines and good practices in the area of consumer price indices.

The Deputy President of the NSI Svilen Kolev, PhD participated with a report and as a moderator during the 17th International Conference on Applied Statistics, which was held in the period of 14 – 15 November 2024 in Bucharest, Romania. The event was organized by the National Institute of Statistics of Romania and the Department of Statistics and Econometrics of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies.

The President of NSI Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD took part in the 5th UN World Data Forum, which was held in Medellín, Colombia in the period 12-15 November 2024. The event was organized with the support of the UN Statistics Division and was hosted by the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE).

The President of NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, PhD and Maria Prokopova-Gochova, Head of the International Relations and Projects Department, took part in the 109th annual Conference of the Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes (DGINS), which was held in Tallinn, Estonia on 23-24 October 2024. The theme of this year’s conference is “Charting New Frontiers of Official Statistics”. The event is hosted by Eurostat and Statistics Estonia.

Representatives from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe visited NSI and had a meeting with the President of the institute, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov, and heads of departments from the Demographic and Social Statistics Directorate and Business Statistics Directorate.

In 2023, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Bulgaria is 185.233 billion BGN. The growth rate of GDP is 1.9% compared to 2022. The data was presented during a press conference by the President of the NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov and the Deputy President, Svilen Kolev, PhD.

“The beyond GDP agenda: past, present, visions for the future” was the theme of this year’s Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (CESS) 2024, which was attended by the President of NSI, Assoc. Prof. Atanas Atanasov. The event was held on 15 and 16 October 2024 at the headquarters of the Banque de France in Paris and was jointly organized by Eurostat and the European Central Bank under the aegis of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC).

The updated digital library of the National Statistical Institute is now available to its readers worldwide. Users now have online access to over 1,200,000 digital pages from NSI’s book collection and can consult over 14, 000 bibliographic descriptions. Last year alone, more than 24,500 online readers were registered, who read more than 625,000 pages.