BG · 2017 · tespm040
Children at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Bulgaria, 2017
In 2017, Bulgaria's children at risk of poverty or social exclusion decreased by 8.8% compared to 2016, reaching 41.6.
Bulgaria accounts for 169.8% of the EU-27 total of 24.5.
Bulgaria ranks 2nd 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 20.5% (from 52.3 in 2012).
Source: Eurostat dataset tespm040, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.