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Bulgaria: Severe Material Deprivation

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

Bulgaria

Latest value

· 2025

15.00% of people

EU 6.01 · +9.0 pp vs Europe

European ranking

2 / 23

No change compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

6.4M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people who, because they cannot afford them, lack at least 7 of the 13 material or social items used in the Eurostat material and social deprivation framework.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Severe material and social deprivation rate TESPM030

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Regional map

· 2025 · 6 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Yugoiztochen

    +40.67

    21.10

  2. 2

    Severen tsentralen

    +27.33

    19.10

  3. 3

    Yuzhen tsentralen

    +20.67

    18.10

  4. 4

    Severozapaden

    +12.67

    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.