Bulgaria (BG) is covered on EconEarth with economy, market, and country data, including a public EE Score when the country is eligible for the ranking.
The EU's lowest cost industrial platform in the southeast, with a growing outsourcing scene in Sofia. Convergence has been real if uneven. Institutions and demographics are the drag, and the lev's long peg is about to become the euro.
EE Score: 82.4. EE Score rank: #44 of 165. EE Economy: 86.4. EE Risk: 88.0. EE Growth: 81.6. EE Impact: 69.8. EE Scale: 62.3. EE Score vintage: 2026-10-02. Region: Europe. Population: 6.4M (rank #112). GDP: $148.1 billion. GDP per capita: $23,848 (2026, IMF). GDP growth: +3.2%. Inflation: +5%. Policy rate: 3.8%. Currency: BGN. Equity market cap: $20.0 billion.