External Debt / Bulgaria
Bulgaria External Debt
Bulgaria external debt data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 55.14%.
COUNTRY: Bulgaria
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-06-13 04:01:56
GM ECONOMY RATING
Bulgaria · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BB
62 / 100
Moderate stability
Fiscal stability
7.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
16.0 / 20
External stability
7.0 / 15
Financial robustness
11.0 / 15
Structural stability
15.0 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
2.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Bulgaria · external debt data as percent of GDP.
Latest
55.14%
Previous
55.46%
Range avg.
71.12%
Rank
7
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CountryBulgaria
IndicatorExternal Debt
55.14%2022 · Rank 7
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Bulgaria recorded 55.14% for External Debt in 2022, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2021, the indicator decreased by 0.32 percentage points, from 55.46% to 55.14%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (71.12%).
Across the five latest available observations (2018–2022), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 55.14% in 2022 and the high was 94.63% in 2013.
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