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Greece and Bulgaria

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Greece

Bulgaria

The widest gap is Housing costs over 40% of income: Greece 26.4% against Bulgaria 6.9%, 19.5 points apart.

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The faint tick on each bar is the EU27 figure.

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Greece
Bulgaria

People

Median age0.1 years
47.2 years
47.3 years
Life expectancy at birth6.1 years
81.9 years
75.8 years
People61.1%
10.4m
6.4m
People per square kilometre36.4%
79.8 per km²
58.5 per km²
Women in the population1.0 points
50.9%
51.9%
Born abroad7.2 points
11.0%
3.8%
Born outside the EU6.1 points
8.8%
2.7%

Money and work

Disposable income per person32.0%
€11,700
€8,862
Average net income19.7%
€13,381
€11,177
Take-home pay, average-wage worker48.8%
€21,498
€14,450
Gross pay, average-wage worker59.2%
€29,652
€18,622
Minimum wage73.1%
€1,073
€620
In work, age 20 to 646.0 points
71.0%
77.0%
Out of work5.4 points
8.9%
3.5%
Hours worked a week1.1 hours
41.0 hours
39.9 hours
At risk of poverty1.6 points
19.6%
21.2%
Housing costs over 40% of income19.5 points
26.4%
6.9%
GDP per person30.5%
€23,570
€18,060

Family and home

People at home9.1%
2.4
2.2
Households with children0.6 points
28.1%
28.7%
Children per woman38.7%
1.24
1.72
Own their home16.7 points
69.4%
86.1%

Health and daily life

Hospital beds2.06×
423 per 100,000 people
870 per 100,000 people
Doctors44.4%
674 per 100,000 people
467 per 100,000 people
Nurses28.2%
365 per 100,000 people
467 per 100,000 people

Education

With a degree0.8 points
34.9%
35.7%
Students per 1,000 people2.81×
85.3 per 1,000 people
30.4 per 1,000 people

Public spending

Public spending on them72.8%
€11,009
€6,370
Tax raised per person92.2%
€9,516
€4,950
Government debt116.2 points
146.1%
29.9%

Country and infrastructure

Land area18.6%
131,694 km²
110,996 km²
Railway density2.62×
14.0 per 1,000 km²
36.6 per 1,000 km²
Motorway density2.30×
17.7 per 1,000 km²
7.7 per 1,000 km²
Cars per 1,000 people17.8%
597 per 1,000 people
507 per 1,000 people
Households with internet4.1 points
88.7%
92.8%
Tourist nights per resident3.44×
14.74
4.29

Environment

Renewable energy4.2 points
26.9%
22.7%
Land under forest0.6 points
36.6%
36.0%

Where €100 of public spending goes

Every euro each general government spends, sorted into the ten functions all 27 countries report against. Open a row for the ranking of 27 and what sits inside it.

Greece

Bulgaria

Function
Greece
Bulgaria
17.1%
7.5%
4.6%
3.3%
4.2%
7.1%
12.4%
14.9%
1.9%
1.6%
1.1%
2.6%
11.9%
13.7%
2.0%
1.8%
8.2%
10.9%
36.7%
36.8%

Reference year 2024. Total public spending €100.00 in every column, so the ten shares always add up to one hundred.

Frequently asked: Greece and Bulgaria

  1. Which government owes more: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 116.2 points: Greece 146.1%, Bulgaria 29.9%. Consolidated gross debt of the general government, against GDP. gov_10dd_edpt1 · 2025. See the figure

  2. Where do housing costs eat more of the income: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 19.5 points: Greece 26.4%, Bulgaria 6.9%. Share whose housing costs exceed 40% of their disposable income. ilc_lvho07a · 2025. See the figure

  3. Where were more residents born abroad: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 7.2 points: Greece 11.0%, Bulgaria 3.8%. Share of residents born in another country. Eurostat records country of birth, not ethnicity. migr_pop3ctb · 2025. See the figure

  4. Where are there more university students per 1,000 people: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 2.81×: Greece 85.3, Bulgaria 30.4. People in higher education, per 1,000 residents. educ_uoe_enrt01 · 2024. See the figure

  5. Where is unemployment higher: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 5.4 points: Greece 8.9%, Bulgaria 3.5%. Share of 15 to 74 year olds in the labour force who are without work and looking for it. une_rt_a · 2025. See the figure

  6. Where is there more railway per 1,000 km²: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 2.62×: Bulgaria 36.6, Greece 14.0. Railway line in use for every 1,000 square kilometres of the country. rail_if_line_tr · 2024. See the figure

  7. Where are there more hospital beds per 100,000 people: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 2.06×: Bulgaria 870, Greece 423. Beds available in hospitals, per 100,000 residents. hlth_rs_bds1 · 2024. See the figure

  8. Where is more tax raised per resident: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 92.2%: Greece €9,516, Bulgaria €4,950. Taxes and net social contributions received by general government, per resident. gov_10a_taxag · 2024. See the figure

  9. Where are more children born per woman: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 38.7%: Bulgaria 1.72, Greece 1.24. Children a woman would bear over her life at today’s age-specific birth rates. demo_find · 2024. See the figure

  10. Where does more energy come from renewables: Greece or Bulgaria?

    The gap is 4.2 points: Greece 26.9%, Bulgaria 22.7%. Share of final energy use that comes from renewable sources. nrg_ind_ren · 2025. See the figure

Medians where possible, per-capita averages for spending. This person is a composite of published statistics, not the most common person in the country.