Gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation

In 2025, Bulgaria's gender employment gap by degree of urbanisation increased by 2.8% compared to 2024, reaching 22.2.

Bulgaria accounts for 77.1% of the EU-27 total of 28.8.

Bulgaria ranks 13th 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 15.9% (from 26.4 in 2020).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_lm230, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.