Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2025 All Rights Reserved

37 percent of Bulgarians cannot afford to heat their homes – the highest share in the EU: Eurostat

Photo: BGNES

In 2017, the largest share of people who say they could not afford to heat their home was recorded in Bulgaria – 37 percent, according to a Eurostat survey.

On average, 8 percent of the EU population said in an EU-wide survey that they could not afford to heat their home sufficiently. In Lithuania this percentage is 29, in Greece – 26, in Cyprus – 23 and in Portugal – 20. The lowest shares (close to 2 percent) were recorded in Luxembourg, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Austria. By way of comparison – in 2006 almost 70 percent of Bulgarians said they were unable to heat their homes. 



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

New Russian emigration in Bulgaria pays tribute to Alexei Navalny

The one-year anniversary of the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked with a memorial service in Sofia's St Nedelya Cathedral. It was organised by the movement "For a Free Russia" - an association of Russian immigrants in..

published on 2/16/25 5:39 PM

Scientists bring back live fish from Antarctica 

Kristiyan Vladov and Stefan Kyurkchiev of the Plovdiv Museum of Natural History are working on a project to bring live fish from the southern Arctic Circle to Bulgaria . The aim is to create an Antarctic aquarium in Plovdiv, where visitors - from..

published on 2/16/25 2:04 PM
Defence minister Zapryanov (L) takes part in the 61st Munich Security Conference, which opened on Friday.

EU accepts Bulgaria's proposal on defence modernisation spending

A procedure will be introduced to exclude military expenditure from the inflation index, Bulgarian Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov announced in Munich, BTA reported. Speaking at the Security Conference, the minister said that Bulgaria had been..

published on 2/16/25 11:33 AM