{"id":9224,"date":"2017-11-12T17:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2017-11-13T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:02:40","slug":"the-it-sector-of-the-sofia-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/the-it-sector-of-the-sofia-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT Sector Accounts for 5.7% of the Sofia Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The IT sector accounts for <\/span><b>5.7% of the Sofia Economy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a growth of 50% between 2011 and 2015 from 3.8% to 5.7%. The growth can be explained with the fact that the sector is almost entirely export-oriented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9226 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IT_Growth_Share_Sofia_economy.png\" alt=\"share-IT-Sofia-economy\" width=\"635\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IT_Growth_Share_Sofia_economy.png 635w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IT_Growth_Share_Sofia_economy-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IT_Growth_Share_Sofia_economy-600x282.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IT_Growth_Share_Sofia_economy-260x122.png 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IT_Growth_Share_Sofia_economy-50x23.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IT_Growth_Share_Sofia_economy-150x70.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between 2012 and 2015, export revenue of IT sector enterprises in Sofia (defined as income from services offered to foreign clients) grew by 78% to reach 1.2 billion BGN. During the same period, the share of the capital\u2019s IT sector in the overall national export grew almost twice: from 1.4% to 2.1% of the total exported goods and services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0State and Development of the IT Industry in Sofia Report<\/span><\/b><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0contains data about the share of the IT sector in the economy of Sofia Municipality, the segmentation in the sector, profile of the companies and the employees, average wages and productivity rate, investments in the IT sector and\u00a0future trends for development of the industry in Sofia.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IT_Sector_Analysis_Sofia_Sept_2017_ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: blue;\">To the full PDF report.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><strong><i><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">If you have further questions regarding the report or other data on the investment climate in Sofia, do not hesitate to contact our team at contact@investsofia.com.<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IT sector accounts for 5.7% of the Sofia Economy, a growth of 50% between 2011 and 2015 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}