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Bulgaria: At-risk-of-poverty rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Bulgaria Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

21.20 Percent of people

European ranking

4 / 30

Improved by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+5.9 puntos

Bulgaria is 5.9 points above the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 1.36 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 21.20 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Yugoiztochen

    +27.40

    27.00

  2. 2

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    +20.80

    25.60

  3. 3

    Severozapaden

    +19.30

    25.30

  4. 4

    Severen tsentralen

    +10.80

    23.50

  5. 5

    Severoiztochen

    +0.50

    21.30

  6. 6

    Yugozapaden

    -35.80

    13.60

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Poverty risk is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 21.2% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 5.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 23.80% in 2020 to 21.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 21.70% in 2024 to 21.20% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Poverty risk shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Yugoiztochen records the highest value (27%) and Yugozapaden the lowest (13.6%), a gap of 13.4 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Bulgaria, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.