Bulgaria in data

What is happening in Bulgaria, measured from open data: inflation, unemployment, GDP growth and government debt from Eurostat, shop prices, the state budget and its execution, public procurement, EU funds, every election since 2005, and a profile of each municipality.

A 3D map of Bulgaria with columns by province. The map above rotates: columns by province for public procurement (at the buyer's seat), for EU funds and for farm subsidies; arcs from buyer to contractor; and a five-stop tour. The three layers are three separate measures, never a sum.

Main sections

  • Prices and consumption
  • My municipality
  • Elections
  • Government sectors
  • State budget
  • Public procurement
  • EU funds
  • Governance

How to read the numbers

Every figure carries its period and its basis. The four headline numbers come from four different Eurostat datasets at different frequencies and are not comparable with each other: growth and inflation are change on a year earlier, unemployment is a level, and debt is a share of GDP. The procurement, budget and EU-funds totals come from separate, overlapping corpora and are never summed.

Explore the data

  • Home
  • Governance
  • National Assembly
  • Roll-call votes
  • Governments
  • MP business connections
  • Public procurement
  • State budget
  • EU funds
  • Indicators
  • Consumption
  • Prices
  • Party financing
  • Opinion polls
  • Seat simulator
  • Parties
  • Results by region
  • Extraordinary local elections
  • Local-elections reconciliation
  • Sofia
  • About the project

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