Bulgaria Poverty Headcount
Bulgaria poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 21.70%.
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Interpretation
Bulgaria recorded 21.70% for Poverty Headcount in 2023, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator increased by 1.10 percentage points, from 20.60% to 21.70%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 9 available observations (22.44%).
Across the five latest available observations (2019–2023), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 9 available observations, the low was 20.60% in 2022 and the high was 23.80% in 2019.