Bulgaria's communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) was 37.95% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 2.62 percentage points from 35.33% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 37.95% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 39.9% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 35.33% | 2015 |
| Highest | 55.83% | 1998 |
| Lowest | 15.05% | 1999 |
| Average since 2016 | 34.28% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 34.43% | 1980 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Bulgaria's communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) fell 0.88 percentage points on 2024 (from 38.83% to 37.95%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.33 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 25.52 percentage points in 1998 and the biggest yearly fall was 40.78 percentage points in 1999. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about 1.34 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 57% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Bulgaria had the 63rd highest value of the 134 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 37.95% | 2025 |
| World | 49.27% | 2025 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 56.18% | 2025 |
| High income | 51.9% | 2025 |
Closest to Bulgaria in the 2025 ranking
What this measures
Communications, computer, information, and other services cover international telecommunications; computer data; news-related service transactions between residents and nonresidents; construction services; royalties and license fees; miscellaneous business, professional, and technical services; personal, cultural, and recreational services; manufacturing services on physical inputs owned by others; and maintenance and repair services and government services not included elsewhere. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of service imports which are services provided by non-residents to residents.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 46 values
| Year | Communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.95 |
| 2024 | 38.83 |
| 2023 | 40.14 |
| 2022 | 34.76 |
| 2021 | 36.28 |
| 2020 | 39.9 |
| 2019 | 30.44 |
| 2018 | 27.16 |
| 2017 | 25.03 |
| 2016 | 32.34 |
| 2015 |
Communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) in nearby economies
- Albania — 10.43% (2025)
- Armenia — 14.06% (2025)
- Austria — 52.58% (2025)
- Azerbaijan — 34.45% (2025)
- Belarus — 21.19% (2021)
- Belgium — 53.8% (2025)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 6.39% (2025)
- Croatia — 46.59% (2025)
- Cyprus — 52.85% (2025)
More economic policy & debt data for Bulgaria
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 4.06% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, net forest depletion (current US$) — US$0 (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$387.76 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, energy depletion (current US$) — US$46.2 million (2021)
- Trade in services (% of GDP) — 21.44% (2025)
- Primary income payments (BoP, current US$) — US$11.11 billion (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$, BoP) — US$67.93 billion (2025)
- Goods imports (current US$, BoP) — US$58.51 billion (2025)
- Service imports (current US$, BoP) — US$9.42 billion (2025)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Bulgaria's communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP)?
- 37.95% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1980?
- It is up 3.53 percentage points from 34.43% in 1980. The highest value was 55.83% in 1998 and the lowest 15.05% in 1999.
- How does Bulgaria rank?
- 63rd highest of 134 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) unusual for Bulgaria?
- In 2025, Bulgaria's communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) fell 0.88 percentage points on 2024 (from 38.83% to 37.95%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was −0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 11.33 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BM.GSR.CMCP.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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