BG · 2022 · ilc_li02
At-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex - EU-SILC and ECHP surveys
Bulgaria, 2022
In 2022, Bulgaria's at-risk-of-poverty rate by poverty threshold, age and sex decreased by 2.0% compared to 2021, reaching 19.9%.
The figure is above the EU-27 average of 15.6%.
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 8.7% (from 21.8% in 2017).
Source: Eurostat dataset ilc_li02, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.