- ISO 3166
BG- Main language + region
bg-BG- Currency
- EUR · Euro
- Region
- EMEA · EU/UK
Bulgaria
Bulgaria has 6.8M people, and 5.6M of them are online. Bulgarian is the most widely spoken language at 100%, one of 5 languages CLDR lists here. Bulgarian is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to bg-BG.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
5.6M
0%world median 81%100%
82% of 6.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$20,328
Higher than 66% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
85%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
5
Bulgarian 100% · English 25% · Russian 23%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
594
Very lowVery high
High proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
98%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records Bulgarian in 5 territories and 7.7M speakers in total; Bulgaria holds 88% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Bulgarian profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (bg-BG).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Cyrillic
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 април 2026 г.
Short: 21.04.26 г.
Time
18:30 ч.
Week starts Mon
Currency
1234,56 €
1,234.56 in EUR · Euro