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Bulgaria: Severe material and social deprivation rate

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

Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Severe material and social deprivation rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

15.00 Percent of people

European ranking

2 / 23

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+9.0 puntos

Bulgaria is 9.0 points above the European average.

EU: 6.04

Affected population

≈ 0.97 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 15.00 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 6.01 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Yugoiztochen

    +40.70

    21.10

  2. 2

    Severen tsentralen

    +27.30

    19.10

  3. 3

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    +20.70

    18.10

  4. 4

    Severozapaden

    +12.70

    16.90

  5. 5

    Severoiztochen

    -6.00

    14.10

  6. 6

    Yugozapaden

    -44.00

    8.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, 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, Severe deprivation stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 15.0% versus 6.0% in 2025, a large gap of 9.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 22.10% in 2020 to 15.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 16.60% in 2024 to 15.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Severe deprivation shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Yugoiztochen records the highest value (21.1%) and Yugozapaden the lowest (8.4%), a gap of 12.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Bulgaria, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions 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.