European ranking
2 / 30
No change from the previous year
Bulgaria: Gini coefficient
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Country overview
Bulgaria
Current reading for Gini coefficient in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Gini coefficient
Latest value
37.70 Index
Compared with Europe
+8.2 puntos
Bulgaria is 8.2 points above the European average.
EU: 29.50
Affected population
6.4M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Gini coefficient
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At a glance
Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Gini coefficient, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, Income inequality stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 37.7 index points versus 29.5 index points in 2025, a large gap of 8.2 index points.
Recent trend
In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 40.0 in 2020 to 37.7 in 2025. The latest step, from 38.4 in 2024 to 37.7 in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Bulgaria, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power 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.