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Bulgaria: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

29.00 Percent of people

European ranking

2 / 30

Compared with Europe

+9.0 puntos

Bulgaria is 9.0 points above the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 1.87 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 29.00 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Yugoiztochen

    +23.40

    35.80

  2. 2

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    +18.60

    34.40

  3. 3

    Severen tsentralen

    +16.60

    33.80

  4. 4

    Severozapaden

    +15.50

    33.50

  5. 5

    Severoiztochen

    -4.50

    27.70

  6. 6

    Yugozapaden

    -31.70

    19.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 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, Poverty or exclusion stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 29.0% versus 20.4% in 2025, a large gap of 8.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 33.50% in 2020 to 29.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 30.30% in 2024 to 29.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Poverty or exclusion shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Yugoiztochen records the highest value (35.8%) and Yugozapaden the lowest (19.8%), a gap of 16 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.