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The analysis attributes recent score movements mainly to changes in the power domain and points to consistent lagging in money and health dimensions. Beyond composite results, the report examines human endowments, showing “reverse” gender gaps where girls outperform boys in learning-adjusted outcomes, while overall human capital levels remain among the lowest in the EU and Europe and Central Asia.","Public Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \nBulgaria Gender Landscape: 2025 Update  \nPub lic Disc losure Authorized  \nMARCH 2026  \nThe World Bank  \nDistributional Impact of Policies Unit  \nMonica Robayo-Abril and Lucía Echeverría  \nOverall Picture  \nAccording to the 2024 Gender Equality Index (EIGE) by the European Institute for Gender Equality, which measures gender equality across six dimensions,1 Bulgaria has closed critical gaps in gender equality. Still, more progress is needed to catch up with EU peers. Bulgaria has improved its Gender Equality Index scores, which remain consistently and significantly below the EU average. In 2024, Bulgaria scored 64.5 out of 100 on the EIGE, ranking 11th-lowest among the EU-27 countries and 6.5 points below the EU average (figure 1) . Bulgaria ranks 17th in the EU, losing one place since last year’sedition of the Index. Compared to 2021, Bulgaria’s overall score decreased by 0.6 points. The primary contribution of the decrease was the domain of power (−3 .9 points), particularly within the economic sub-domain. The country ranks below the European average across all subindicators. Comparing the six available subindicators with the EU averages, Bulgaria performs well in the power, work, and time dimensions. Still, it performs poorly in the money and health dimensions, falling significantly behind the European average.2 Even though Bulgaria’s Index exhibits a lower trend than the EU average, it is improving faster than that average, reducing the gap over time.  \nGoing beyond composite indicators, the country lags in several dimensions. These include selected aspects of human endowments, economic opportunities (as measured by participation in economic activities and access to and control of critical productive assets), poverty, and voice and agency, as expressed in political participation, freedom from gender-based violence, and the ability to make key decisions.  \nFigure 1: Gender Equality Index, 2024  \n\n| Percent | 90\u003Cbr>80\u003Cbr>70\u003Cbr>60\u003Cbr>50\u003Cbr>40\u003Cbr>30\u003Cbr>20\u003Cbr>10\u003Cbr>0 |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\nSource: European Institute for Gender Equality (2024) .  \n1 The Gender Equality Index measures gender gaps between women and men in 6 core domains—work, money, knowledge, time, power and health, comprising 31 indicators. The data for 2024 Index are mostly from 2022. A value of 100 would mean that a country had reached full gender equality. The “work” dimension evaluates aspects related to labor market participation and segregation, while “money” examines economic resources and gender pay gaps. “Knowledge” assesses educational attainment and achievements and “time” focuses on the division of unpaid work and caregiving responsibilities. The “power”dimension analyzes political and decision-making participation, while “health” considers gender-based health disparities. The main sources are Eurostat (education statistics, European Union Labor Force Survey, European Health Interview Survey, European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, Structure of Earnings Survey), Eurofound (European Working Conditions Survey, European Quality of Life Survey), and EIGE (Women and Men in Decision-Making) .  \n2 As of the 2024 Global Equality Index (GEI), the European average for the money dimension stands at 83.4, whereas Bulgaria ranks last among all member states with a score of 66.6. In terms of health, the respective scores are 88.6 for the European average and 78.3 for Bulgaria (second to last) .  \nHuman Endowments  \nAs in other EU countries, Bulgarian girls are better off than boys in the dimensions the Human Capital Index (HCI) measures. According to the HCI 2020, a girl born in Bulgaria today will be 63 percent as productive when she grows up as she would be if she enjoyed complete education and full health, a level higher than that of boys (60 percent) . These ‘reverse’ gender gaps are similar to those observed in other countries in the region (Figure 2) . However, it is worth noti","cbCaiugIYMidgswC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiugIYMidgswC","pdf",1149935,3,1,20,"English","en",105,"# Overall Picture\n## Human Endowments","[{\"question\":\"How does Bulgaria’s Gender Equality Index score compare with the EU average in 2024?\",\"answer\":\"In 2024, Bulgaria scores 64.5 out of 100 on the EIGE, ranking 11th-lowest among EU-27 and 6.5 points below the EU average. 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