BG · 2015 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Bulgaria, 2015
In 2015, Bulgaria's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex increased by 0.9% compared to 2014, reaching 22.0%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 17.4%.
Bulgaria ranks 5th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 6.3% (from 20.7% in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.