BG · 2025 · tesem140
Youth unemployment rate by sex
Bulgaria, 2025
Youth unemployment rate by sex
26.2
Bulgaria, 2025
▲ 6.5% vs 2024 (24.6)
Analysis
In 2025, Bulgaria's youth unemployment rate by sex increased by 6.5% compared to 2024, reaching 26.2.
Bulgaria accounts for 86.2% of the EU-27 total of 30.4.
Bulgaria ranks 19th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.
Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 25.1% (from 35.0 in 2020).
Source: Eurostat dataset tesem140, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.
Rank in EU-27 · 2025
#19 of 27
% of EU-27 total · 2025
86.2%
EU-27: 30.4
Bulgaria timeline (last 15 years)
2011 2025
Source:
Eurostat · tesem140