1. MigrationBulgaria

   Bulgaria: in 2015–2024 126k more people arrived than left — Eurostat expected the opposite in 2015

   ActualEurostat projection 2015

   Eurostat's 2015 projection assumed that over these years 103k more would leave than arrive; the gap with the outcome is 230k people. The outcome: Eurostat data on arrivals and departures.

   Source: Eurostat: EUROPOP projections (2013 and 2015: Internet Archive copies of Eurostat files) and statisticsOpen on the chart →

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