EU 7.05
· European ranking
14 / 30
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Bulgaria: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
7.70% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · +0.7 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures people aged 0 to 64 living in households where working-age members worked 20% or less of their combined potential working time during the previous year. Eurostat excludes specified groups such as certain students and retired people from the work-intensity calculation.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) ilc_lvhl21n
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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.
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1+80.52
13.90
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2+37.66
10.60
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3+27.27
9.80
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4+10.39
8.50
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5-25.97
5.70
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6-49.35
3.90
More context on this indicator
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. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. 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.
Reading within the topic
In Bulgaria, Employment & Economic Security 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.