Bulgaria's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) was 67.55% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 64.16 percentage points from 3.39% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 67.55% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 9.73% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 3.39% | 2015 |
| Highest | 67.55% | 2025 |
| Lowest | -32% | 1996 |
| Average since 2016 | 11.39% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 4.18% | 1981 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Bulgaria's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) rose 59.64 percentage points on 2024 (from 7.91% to 67.55%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.4 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 13.49 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 4.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 59.64 percentage points in 2025 and the biggest yearly fall was 55.3 percentage points in 1996. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 29% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
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 2nd highest value of the 129 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 | 67.55% | 2025 |
| World | 2.04% | 2024 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 1.79% | 2025 |
| High income | 1.43% | 2024 |
Closest to Bulgaria in the 2025 ranking
- Kyrgyz Republic — 2nd of 129: 21.75%
- Armenia — 3rd of 129: 8.79%
- Rwanda — 4th of 129: 7.97%
What this measures
This field includes expenditure on goods and services by the Household and NPISH sector for the direct satisfaction of human needs or wants, whether individual or collective. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 45 values
| Year | Households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 67.55 |
| 2024 | 7.91 |
| 2023 | 5.25 |
| 2022 | 1.73 |
| 2021 | 4.71 |
| 2020 | 9.73 |
| 2019 | 1.16 |
| 2018 | 7.46 |
| 2017 | 4.67 |
| 2016 | 3.8 |
| 2015 |
Households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) in nearby economies
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$46.2 million (2021)
- Trade in services (% of GDP) — 21.44% (2025)
- Communications, computer, etc. (% of service imports, BoP) — 37.95% (2025)
- Primary income payments (BoP, current US$) — 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)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Bulgaria's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth)?
- 67.55% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1981?
- It is up 63.37 percentage points from 4.18% in 1981. The highest value was 67.55% in 2025 and the lowest -32% in 1996.
- How does Bulgaria rank?
- 2nd highest of 129 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) unusual for Bulgaria?
- In 2025, Bulgaria's households final consumption expenditure per capita (annual % growth) rose 59.64 percentage points on 2024 (from 7.91% to 67.55%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.4 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 13.49 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 4.4 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NE.CON.PRVT.PC.KD.ZG, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) 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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