Bulgaria's life expectancy rose from 71.1 yrs in 1995 to 75.8 yrs in 2024.
Bulgaria · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
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Bulgaria's healthy life expectancy at birth fell from 62.8 yrs in 2000 to 62.4 yrs in 2021.
Bulgaria's infant mortality fell from 15.5 ‰ in 1995 to 4.6 ‰ in 2024.
Bulgaria's under-5 mortality rate fell from 19.2 ‰ in 1995 to 5.7 ‰ in 2024.
Bulgaria's maternal mortality ratio fell from 25.0 /100k in 1994 to 6.0 /100k in 2023.
Bulgaria's ncd mortality fell from 28.5 % in 2000 to 25.6 % in 2021.
Bulgaria's suicide mortality rate fell from 18.2 /100k in 2000 to 9.5 /100k in 2021.
Bulgaria's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 13.0 /100k in 2000 to 9.2 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.3 pts62nd of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +17.9 %57th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.4 pts127th of 192
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- Physiciansup +0.7 %19th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesdown −10.6 %35th of 79
- Hospital bedsup +2.4 %3rd of 75
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +2.0 pts68th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)up +2.0 pts66th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −29.4 %66th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterdown −0.1 pts48th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +1.0 pts56th of 141