EU 8.02
· European ranking
4 / 30
Down 3 positions compared with previous year
Bulgaria: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
16.10% of people
EU 8.02 · +8.1 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in households that cannot afford to keep their home adequately warm.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Inability to keep home adequately warm ilc_mdes01
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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+14.29
18.40
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2+12.42
18.10
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3+11.80
18.00
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4-2.48
15.70
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5-9.94
14.50
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6-11.18
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.