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Bulgaria: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years)

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Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years)

Latest value

7.70 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

14 / 30

Compared with Europe

+0.4 puntos

Bulgaria is 0.4 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 0.50 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 7.70 Percent of people aged 0 to 64 Europe benchmark: 7.05 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years)

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Severozapaden

    +80.50

    13.90

  2. 2

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    +37.70

    10.60

  3. 3

    Severen tsentralen

    +27.30

    9.80

  4. 4

    Yugoiztochen

    +10.40

    8.50

  5. 5

    Severoiztochen

    -26.00

    5.70

  6. 6

    Yugozapaden

    -49.40

    3.90

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At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years), although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed stability. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 7.7% versus 7.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.7 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 8.40% in 2020 to 7.70% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 7.90% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 6 comparable regions, Severozapaden records the highest value (13.9%) and Yugozapaden the lowest (3.9%), a gap of 10 percentage points.