Bulgaria has the lowest government debt in the entire European Union. This is shown by the latest Eurostat data for the first three months of 2025.
Bulgaria is number one in the indicator “government debt to gross domestic product“ - with a result of 23.9%. For comparison - the average indicator for the European Union is almost 82%.
Last week, our country withdrew new debt in the amount of 6 billion and 260 million leva, which is not reflected in these statistics.
Other countries with low debt are Estonia (24.1%), Luxembourg (26.1%) and Denmark (29.9%).
The highest debt is in Greece, Italy and France.