Bulgaria
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | Upper-middle income |
| Regional Group | Europe |
| Population (Total) | 6,975,761 |
| Population as a share world total | 0.09% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 67,927 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 0.08% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 24,561 |
Performance Overview
IS03
BGR
Country
Bulgaria
Score
55.03
Rank
46
Technology
50.13
People
51.27
Governance
65.53
Impact
53.19
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 64.87 | 62 |
| 2. Handset prices | 33.06 | 95 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 72.06 | 61 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 99.71 | 16 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 97.71 | 10 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 78.58 | 12 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | n/a | n/a |
| 1. GitHub commits | 30.16 | 27 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | 72.97 | 33 |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 81.97 | 28 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 48.94 | 60 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 46.61 | 50 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 11.01 | 46 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 21.77 | 56 |
| 5. Robot density | 2.34 | 45 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 37.85 | 50 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 19.46 | 47 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 2.13 | 46 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 28.89 | 60 |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | 67.17 | 23 |
| 1. Happiness | 47.47 | 89 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 75.99 | 65 |
| 3. Income inequality | 58.25 | 79 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 66.86 | 62 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 62.30 | 85 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 41.66 | 48 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 82.88 | 26 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 67.63 | 98 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 77.18 | 42 |
| 1. Internet users | 64.05 | 74 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 39.97 | 27 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 55.67 | 63 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 51.71 | 27 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | 97.91 | 27 |
| 6. ICT skills | 65.24 | 44 |
| 1. Firms with website | 42.03 | 76 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 73.84 | 59 |
| 3. Professionals | 40.24 | 40 |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | 39.40 | 54 |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | 72.75 | 40 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 13.50 | 38 |
| 1. Government online services | 76.37 | 46 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 37.14 | 41 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 45.90 | 49 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 18.30 | 75 |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 84.60 | 14 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 77.25 | 48 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 16.23 | 92 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 27.91 | 48 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 64.11 | 42 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 93.25 | 26 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 48.04 | 51 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | 88.07 | 12 |
| 1. E-Participation | 88.89 | 23 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 50.14 | 92 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 78.10 | 35 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | 59.35 | 53 |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 55.45 | 87 |