Bulgaria
EU-27 · statistics to 2024–25 · policy framework at end-2025 · policy coded from the 2025 mid-term review report and the documents it cites
Dimensions
| Dimension | Score | Rank /45 | EU-27 | EU-27 | Indicators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political | 79.8 | 9 | 71.5 | 71.5 | 7 / 8 |
| Economic | 50.9 | 35 | 62.8 | 62.8 | 13 / 20 |
| Legal | 74.2 | 14 | 63.8 | 63.8 | 7 / 12 |
| Institutional | 51.3 | 31 | 61.9 | 61.9 | 10 / 16 |
| Financial | 89.0 | 6 | 71.0 | 71.0 | 3 / 7 |
| Composite | 69.0 | 13 | 66.2 | 66.2 | 40 / 63 |
Indicators = scored now / in the full SEI matrix. Ties share a rank.
Composite, 2015–2024
Same goalposts every year. Legal and financial scores are held at their single readings, so change comes from governance, social and labour statistics, firm demography and early-stage entrepreneurship.
Social-enterprise policy and legal framework, end-2025
| SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 National Concept for Social Economy (2012); Social Economy Action Plans 2022–2023 and 2024–2025 (Council of Ministers) · source | 3/3 |
| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (Social Economy Directorate); Social Economy Working Group under MLSP; Economic and Social Council · source | 2/2 |
| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 SSE Act 2018 (label usable in procurement); planned reserved-contract amendments; procurer training · source | 1/2 |
| Official SE definition 3.1 Law on Enterprises of the Social and Solidarity Economy (2018) · source | 1/1 |
| Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 Law on Enterprises of the Social and Solidarity Economy (2018, in force May 2019) · source | 2/2 |
| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 Six NRRP regional social economy centres (Plovdiv, Lovech, Varna, Burgas, Blagoevgrad, Gabrovo); digital platform; planned Social Innovation · source | 1/2 |
| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 NRRP investment C11.I3 'Development of the social economy' (€12.3m); ESF+ Human Resources Development Programme 2021–2027 · source | 2/2 |
| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 'New Beginning' microfinance programme (BDB Microfinance with Fund of Funds, 2021); national grants, subsidies, guarantees · source | 2/2 |
Policy composite 87.5 of 100 (mean of the eight codes).
SEI 2021 pilot note
The 2021 note on Bulgaria, with its country facts, charts and sources, is kept in the archive as published. Its figures date from 2020–21 and are not updated.
Cite this profile
Social Entrepreneurship Observatory & SENIC. (2026). Bulgaria: SEI 2026 country profile (provisional edition, version 0.9.1). Social Entrepreneurship Index. https://seindex.org/countries/bulgaria/