The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (86/100) — sharpest risk, innovation weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 64/100 | Financial Account Ownership |
| Governance | 56/100 | Business Entry |
| Quality of Life | 86/100 | Tertiary Enrolment (Gross) |
| Innovation | 56/100 | Internet Penetration |
| Stability | 63/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | — | now 55, versus 55 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 66/100 | Pandemic 73 · Banking Crisis 61 · War / Conflict 56 · Natural Disaster 74 |
| Strategic Position | 53/100 | Demographics 51 · Resources 25 · Stability 63 · Education 77 · Technology 56 · Geopolitics 44 |
Bulgaria scores 65 (moderate) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: flat versus three years ago (now 55). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (86/100). The risk drawing attention: Innovation weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 110 sourced, 82 derived — each with its exact source, series code, and refresh cadence. The complete source-by-source catalog is on the methodology page.
Full catalog →Per-indicator sources are always public on the methodology page — Analyst assembles the complete ledger in context.
Bulgaria scores 65 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (moderate) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (86/100) and its weakest is Innovation (56/100).
Bulgaria's Stability score is 63 out of 100 (moderate), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Bulgaria's Economy score is 64 out of 100 (moderate), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Bulgaria's Quality of Life score is 86 out of 100 (strong), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Bulgaria's Governance score is 56 out of 100 (moderate), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Bulgaria's Innovation score is 56 out of 100 (moderate), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, Bulgaria is unchanged versus three years ago — 55 then and now — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Bulgaria's defining asset is tertiary enrolment (gross), while its sharpest risk is innovation weakness — patent Applications 25.62 per million — the category's weakest input (4/100).
Bulgaria's Strategic Position score is 53 out of 100 (weak), weighing demographics, resources, stability, education, technology and geopolitics — each component sourced or derived, with unsourced components dropped rather than counted as zero.
On NationsHelm's Opportunity Index, Bulgaria scores 61 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 66/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.