BG · 2013 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Bulgaria, 2013
In 2013, Bulgaria's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 2.6% compared to 2012, reaching 22.2%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 17.3%.
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 3.1% (from 22.9% in 2008).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.