Bulgaria
Bulgaria in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Bulgaria recorded GDP per capita: 20,328 (2025), ranking 73 of 212 worldwide; Population: 6.43 million (2025), ranking 111 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 75.8 (2024), ranking 101 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 4.58% (2025), ranking 50 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP per capita shows the largest increase (+799%) and Population growth the largest decrease (-113%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits above the world median on slightly more than half. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 12 of 19 comparable series are higher and 6 are lower.
Its population of 6.43 million (2025) makes it a smaller population by the standards of this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 130,777,235,529.61 | 2025 | +552.6% |
| GDP per capita | 20,328.17 | 2025 | +798.9% |
| GDP growth | 3.1% | 2025 | -36.8% |
| Population | 6,433,302 | 2025 | -18.2% |
| Population growth | -0.13% | 2025 | -113.2% |
| Urban population | 74.17% | 2025 | +99.9% |
| Inflation | 4.58% | 2025 | +69.7% |
| Life expectancy | 75.76 | 2024 | +9.4% |
| Infant mortality | 4.6 | 2024 | -89.8% |
| CO2 per capita | 5.31 | 2024 | -34.8% |
| GDP (PPP) | 285,967,351,546.68 | 2025 | +334.6% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 44,451.1 | 2025 | +488.9% |
| Labor participation | 56.12% | 2025 | +11.7% |
| Unemployment | 3.54% | 2025 | -68.1% |
| Electricity access | 100% | 2024 | 0.0% |
| Internet users | 82.44% | 2024 | — |
| Forest area | 36.22% | 2023 | +20.4% |
| Education spending | 4.5% | 2022 | +27.5% |
| Health spending | 7.92% | 2023 | +35.8% |