European ranking
5 / 30
No change from the previous year
Bulgaria: Overcrowding rate
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Country overview
Bulgaria
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
32.50 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+10.2 puntos
Bulgaria is 10.2 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 2.09 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 32.5% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 13.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 39.50% in 2020 to 32.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 33.80% in 2024 to 32.50% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Bulgaria, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.