ENERGY POVERTY

Home energy poverty in Bulgaria

Inability to keep the home adequately warm, its trend and relation to building age.

EUROSTAT · EU-SILC · CENSUS 2021
2025 · ILC_MDES01

Unable to keep home warm

Bulgaria : 16.1 % · EU-27 : 8.8 %

20142025

Difficulty heating by building age

1960 and before22.8 %
1961–198018.9 %
1981–200017.6 %
2001–201013.3 %
2011 and after12.1 %
EUROSTAT · POVERTY

Key reading note

Reference years differ by source: heating systems are measured in 2023, several housing-condition indicators in 2025, and housing-stock structure in Census 2021. Percentages from different blocks should therefore not be added together.

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