Country detail · v1-20260518

Bulgaria

In The Cracks Index, Bulgaria ranks 37 of 40. 36 countries catch their most vulnerable people more reliably; 3 countries do so less reliably.

Composite score Open

79.6

0 best · 100 widest cracks · built from 6 indicators

The fix

The change most likely to close the widest crack in Bulgaria

More joined-up income and material support is the lever most associated with improvement here — reducing the share of households going without essentials.

Linked to the indicator severe material deprivation. This is the index pointing forward: not a judgement, but a lever. The estimated impact is published as a direction, not a promise.

The six indicators

Where Bulgaria’s safety net holds, and where it is under strain

Each bar is the indicator normalised to 0–100, direction-corrected so a longer bar always means more cracks. The raw public value and the source year sit beside it.

All 6 indicators are still an estimate The rest is a modelled v0 estimate. Coverage grows weekly as more sources are fetched live.

Problematic debt

weight 19%

Share of households with debts they can no longer repay. The first crack most people fall through, and the one that pushes the others open.

78

Raw value 20 % of households source year 2024 Open estimate

Number of evictions

weight 15%

Court-ordered evictions per 10,000 households. A direct measure of how often housing insecurity is allowed to reach its endpoint.

85

Raw value 22.5 per 10,000 households source year 2024 Open estimate

Mental-health treatment gap

weight 15%

Share of people with an identified mental-health care need who receive no care. The distance between needing help and reaching it.

87

Raw value 32 % unmet need source year 2024 Open estimate

Unmet youth care

weight 12%

Share of young people referred for care who wait longer than the recommended term or are never helped. A crack measured early in a life.

81

Raw value 23 % unmet need source year 2024 Open estimate

Food insecurity

weight 12%

Share of the population reporting moderate or severe food insecurity. The point at which a financial shortfall reaches the kitchen table.

55

Raw value 17.5 % of the population source year 2024 Widening estimate

Severe material deprivation Widest crack

weight 12%

Share of the population unable to afford several basic necessities that most people take for granted. A widely used floor for material insecurity.

89

Raw value 22 % of the population source year 2024 Open estimate

The widest crack in Bulgaria is severe material deprivation, which carries the most weight in raising the composite score. That is what the fix above targets.

Within Bulgaria

The same index, zoomed in

National figures hide local differences. These are the 6 sub-national areas of Bulgaria, scored with the same six-indicator method and ranked against one another.

1 Severozapaden Region · BG31 69.3 2 Yugoiztochen Region · BG34 70.7 3 Severen tsentralen Region · BG32 75.4 4 Yugozapaden Region · BG41 82.3 5 Yuzhen tsentralen Region · BG42 83.6 6 Severoiztochen Region · BG33 95.9

Sub-national areas are ranked only against other areas at the same level, never against countries. Every value is a public area-level aggregate. No personal data is used.

Around this rank

36 Costa Rica 72.7 37 Bulgaria 79.6 38 Türkiye 84.9
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Cite this figure

Fynqo (2026). The Cracks Index, v1-20260518. Snapshot of 2026-05-18. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0. https://fynqo.app/cracks-index/

Every value on this page is a public country-level aggregate. No personal data is used. The method is fully public.

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