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Bulgaria: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

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Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Latest value

6.90 Ratio

European ranking

2 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+2.4 puntos

Bulgaria is 2.4 points above the European average.

EU: 4.53

Affected population

6.4M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 6.94 Ratio Europe benchmark: 4.73 Ratio

Internal regions

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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Yugozapaden

    +8.70

    7.50

  2. 2

    Yugoiztochen

    -1.40

    6.80

  3. 3

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    -10.10

    6.20

  4. 4

    Severoiztochen

    -13.00

    6.00

  5. 5

    Severozapaden

    -15.90

    5.80

  6. 6

    Severen tsentralen

    -24.60

    5.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, with a large 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, S80/S20 ratio stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 6.94 versus 4.73 in 2025, a large gap of 2.21 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 8.01 in 2020 to 6.94 in 2025. The latest value changes little from 6.96 in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, regional values for S80/S20 ratio are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Yugozapaden records the highest value (7.5) and Severen tsentralen the lowest (5.2), a gap of 2.3 in the ratio.

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.