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Bulgaria: Inability to keep home adequately warm

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

Country: Bulgaria Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm Year: 2025

Country overview

Bulgaria

Current reading for Inability to keep home adequately warm in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

16.10 Percent of people

European ranking

4 / 30

Improved by 3 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+8.4 puntos

Bulgaria is 8.4 points above the European average.

EU: 7.68

Affected population

≈ 1.04 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 16.10 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 8.02 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Severozapaden

    +14.30

    18.40

  2. 2

    Yugoiztochen

    +12.40

    18.10

  3. 3

    Severen tsentralen

    +11.80

    18.00

  4. 4

    Yugozapaden

    -2.50

    15.70

  5. 5

    Severoiztochen

    -9.90

    14.50

  6. 6

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    -11.20

    14.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Bulgaria performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 16.1% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 8.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Bulgaria, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 27.50% in 2020 to 16.10% in 2025. The latest step, from 19.00% in 2024 to 16.10% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Bulgaria

In Bulgaria, regional values for Cannot keep home warm are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Severozapaden records the highest value (18.4%) and Yuzhen tsentralen the lowest (14.3%), a gap of 4.1 percentage points.

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.