[size=55:30tpbv7h]Eurostat 08 October 2010

61% of Young Bulgarian Men Live with Parents

Bulgaria is ranked first in the EU 27 on the percentage of men aged 25 to 34 living with their parents, according to Eurostat.

A total of 61% of the young Bulgarian men lived with their parents in 2008;
this number is also high in Slovenia (60%), Greece and Slovakia (both 56%), and is lowest in Denmark (3%), Sweden (4%) and Finland (8%).

Bulgaria's is fares better with respect to women of the same age group, with only 31% living with their parents. Among women aged 25 to 34, Slovakia (42%) had the largest proportion living with their parents, followed by Slovenia (38%) and Greece (36%), while Denmark (1%), Finland and Sweden (both 2%) had the smallest.

In the EU 27 as a whole, in 2008, 20% of women and 32% of men aged 25 to 34 lived with at least one of their parents, Eurostat data shows.

In all member states, there were higher shares of women in the age group 18 to 34 living in a consensual union than men, because women on average marry or move out with a partner earlier in life than men.

The highest proportions of both women and men aged 18 to 34 who lived in a consensual union in 2008 were observed in Finland (63% for women and 51% for men), Sweden (61% and 48%), Romania (57% and 42%) and France (55% and 45%), and the lowest for women in Ireland (34%), Slovenia, Malta and Slovakia (all 37%) and for men in Greece (21%), Slovenia (22%) and Italy (25%). For Bulgaria the numbers are 53% for women and 39% for men.