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Bulgaria: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Inability to face unexpected financial expenses in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

42.50 Percent of people

European ranking

3 / 30

Improved by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+13.2 puntos

Bulgaria is 13.2 points above the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 2.74 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 42.40 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 29.09 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Severen tsentralen

    +23.10

    52.30

  2. 2

    Yugoiztochen

    +21.60

    51.70

  3. 3

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    +15.80

    49.20

  4. 4

    Severoiztochen

    +9.20

    46.40

  5. 5

    Severozapaden

    +5.20

    44.70

  6. 6

    Yugozapaden

    -33.60

    28.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Unexpected expenses stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 42.4% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 13.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 43.50% in 2020 to 42.40% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 45.60% in 2024 to 42.40% in 2025, shows material improvement and provides a clearer recent signal.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Severen tsentralen records the highest value (52.3%) and Yugozapaden the lowest (28.2%), a gap of 24.1 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.