BG · 2025 · tesem210
At-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons
Bulgaria, 2025
In 2025, Bulgaria's at-risk of poverty rate of unemployed persons decreased by 6.1% compared to 2024, reaching 55.1.
Bulgaria accounts for 111.8% of the EU-27 total of 49.3.
Bulgaria ranks 8th out of 26 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 9.8% (from 61.1 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem210, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.