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IndicatorBGRBulgariaEurope & Central Asia
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.85rank #41
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile43rank #100
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.47rank #54
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.44rank #60
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.75rank #63
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile52.2rank #99
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.85rank #41
Military spending% GDP2.1%rank #48
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.4rank #60
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile66.6rank #99
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile59.4rank #68
Rule of Law0-100 percentile56.4rank #99
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.56rank #80
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.6rank #59
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.5rank #62
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile60.6rank #85
Women in parliament% seats25%rank #93
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.91rank #18
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment4.7%rank #130
Agriculture value added% GDP2.5%rank #121
Annual working hours per workerhours1,659.3rank #93
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker126,647rank #93
Current account balance% GDP-5.8%rank #80
Employment-to-population ratio%54%rank #121
External debt stocks% GNI55.1%rank #73
FDI net inflows% GDP3.7%rank #22
GDPcurrent US$130.78Brank #62
GDP growth%3.1%rank #99
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$20,328.2rank #54
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $35,325.5rank #56
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $32,174.9rank #55
Government expenditure% GDP35.8%rank #21
Gross capital formation% GDP21.7%rank #81
Gross savings% GDP16.7%rank #58
High-technology exports% manuf. exports13.4%rank #47
Human capital indexindex3.2rank #39
Industry value added% GDP21.2%rank #107
Inflation%4.6%rank #126
Labour force participation rate%55.7%rank #132
Personal remittances received% GDP2.1%rank #49
R&D expenditure% GDP0.79%rank #44
Researchers in R&Dper million2,400.6rank #35
Tax revenue% GDP20.7%rank #34
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.74rank #44
Trade openness% GDP102.5%rank #42
Unemployment% labor force3.5%rank #58
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%3.1%rank #46
Vulnerable employment% employment6.9%rank #20
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2410.2%rank #74
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-248.9%rank #61
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99.2%rank #46
Basic sanitation access% pop86.1%rank #112
Child mortalityper 1000.57rank #27
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,999.6rank #85
DTP3 immunization coverage%94%rank #6
Health spending% GDP7.9%rank #62
Infant mortalityper 1k births4.6rank #23
Life expectancyyears75.8rank #101
Maternal mortalityper 100k6rank #6
Measles immunization% children94%rank #6
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%94%rank #6
Physiciansper 1k4.3rank #19
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m319.7rank #114
Road traffic deathsper 100k9.2rank #37
Smoking prevalence% adults38.7%rank #132
Suicide mortality rateper 100k9.5rank #120
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k12rank #47
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births5.7rank #48
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Adult literacy%98.3%rank #12
Education spending% GDP4.5%rank #68
Expected years of schoolingyears15.3rank #63
Mean years of schoolingyears11.5rank #55
Primary completion rate% relevant age94.6%rank #57
Primary enrollment% gross95.3%rank #98
Secondary enrollment% gross94.8%rank #52
Tertiary enrollment% gross69.5%rank #31
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0008.3rank #171
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.7rank #125
Median age of populationyears44.3rank #17
Net migration rateper 1,0000.76rank #77
Populationpeople6.43Mrank #111
Population growth%-0.13%rank #181
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years79.9rank #102
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands5,402.2rank #127
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age57.2rank #90
Urban population%74.2%rank #65
Climate
CO₂ emissionst31.62Mrank #75
CO₂ per capitat4.7rank #70
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation22.5%rank #38
Electricity from hydro% generation6.7%rank #56
Electricity from solar% generation18.2%rank #14
Electricity from wind% generation3.5%rank #54
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita5,360.5rank #36
Forest area% land36.2%rank #84
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita4.3rank #87
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh275.4rank #39
Renewable electricity%32.8%rank #51
Renewable energy share%20.4%rank #96
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e27.8rank #80
Society
Asylum seekerspeople290rank #42
Extreme poverty% pop1%rank #11
Female labor participation%50.4%rank #117
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10037rank #29
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #24
Gender Inequality Index0-10.21rank #48
Gini indexindex39.5rank #35
Homicide rateper 100k1.1rank #29
Human Development Index0-10.85rank #44
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.75rank #42
Internet users% pop82.4%rank #88
Life satisfaction0-105.7rank #81
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.74rank #28
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #90
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #52
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #60
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #62
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people105,596rank #51
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people533rank #60
Youth NEET rate%10.9%rank #41
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102rank #15
Human hazard & exposure0-100.5rank #6
INFORM risk score0-102.6rank #15
Lack of coping capacity0-102.9rank #21
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.1rank #8
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-104.4rank #23
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.3rank #20
Socio-economic vulnerability0-101.6rank #17
Vulnerability0-103rank #19
Vulnerable groups0-104.2rank #37
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