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 40.3% compared to 2014, reaching 31.7%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 13.7%.
Bulgaria ranks 3rd out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the top half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 1.6% (from 32.2% in 2010).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.