The bar chart compares the percentage of Bulgarian students with different educational backgrounds who intended to move abroad in the three different years 2002, 2006, and2008.
Overall, pupils at the intermediate level had the highest proportions for all time. However, graduates mostly preferred to stay in the country, and this indicator was also followed by scholars at the basic educational level.
In 2002, around 65% of secondary-educated people studied oversea, but this figure declined slightly to 61% by 2006, and then to approximately 59% in 2008. Nonetheless, they were still the most eager to move abroad. Learners with primary education, who made up only 18% in 2002, climbed to 19% in 2006, and then experienced unexpected breakthrough with 32% in 2008, which means the pattern of emigration had been
successful.
By contrast, after a moderate increase of 3% among highly-educated persons in 2006, the figure plummeted to 9% by 2008, reaching its lowest point, which means they were most likely to stay within the country. On the whole, the figures showed that interest in relocation abroad remained actual during the decade.