Bulgaria compared with EU peers — dashboard

Multi-panel comparison anchored on Bulgaria against the EU27 aggregate and four CEE/southern peers (Romania, Greece, Hungary, Croatia). Goal is not raw data access (Eurostat and the World Bank own that) but editorial framing: where Bulgaria lags, where it underspends relative to the EU mean, and where spending fails to deliver results.

What's on this page

• WGI radar — World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators on six axes (voice & accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, control of corruption) overlaid for all six geos. Bulgaria's polygon is typically the smallest.
• Latest values — eight quarterly macro/fiscal indicators in a table coloured against the EU27 average, with a 1/27 rank badge for indicators with an unambiguous direction.
• Budget composition (COFOG) — stacked bars of general-government expenditure by function as % of GDP. Below the chart: the three largest BG-vs-EU27 deltas (typically: social protection, general services, health).
• Income & poverty risk (SILC) — Gini coefficient, S80/S20 ratio and AROPE. Bulgaria ranks 27/27 in the EU on all three.
• Spend vs outcome — health spend (% GDP) vs life expectancy; social-protection spend vs AROPE. This is where it becomes visible whether the money produces results.
• Shareable URL — country selection persists in the ?peers= parameter, so the current view is shareable.

Sources: Eurostat (macro, COFOG, SILC, demographics) and World Bank WGI. The EU27 average on the WGI radar is an unweighted mean across the 27 member states.