| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tracked flow records | 2,060 | Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming Bulgaria as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total. |
| Port coverage | 2of 23 | Ports catalogued for Bulgaria with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex. |
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How concentrated Bulgaria's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — Bulgaria's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.
+ 229 more tracked partners not shown above.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (2024–2025) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goods exports | BGN 84.2B | 2025 | — |
| Goods imports | BGN 105.5B | 2025 | — |
Every one of Bulgaria's 207 real trading partners reported for 2025 under UN Comtrade (BG) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.
Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for Bulgaria's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare Bulgaria against all 68 covered countries.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (2001–2006) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of exporting firms | 13,804 | 2006 | |
| Incumbent exporting firms | 8,521 | 2006 | |
| New entrant exporting firms | 5,283 | 2006 | |
| Exiting exporting firms | 5,624 | 2006 | |
| Firm entry rate | 38.3% | 2006 | |
| Firm exit rate | 39.8% | 2006 | |
| Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale) | 0.016 | 2006 | |
| Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes) | 1,113 | 2006 | |
| Avg. export value per exporting firm | $934.5K | 2006 | |
| Median export value per exporting firm | $22.5K | 2006 | |
| Avg. destination countries per exporting firm | 2.4 | 2007 | |
| Median destination countries per exporting firm | 1.0 | 2007 |
The 2006 mean is 42x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.
Top product categories among Bulgaria's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2006 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.
| Product category (HS2) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84 | 3,916 |
| Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85 | 1,820 |
| Plastics and articles thereof HS 39 | 1,645 |
| Articles of iron or steel HS 73 | 1,630 |
| Vehicles other than railway HS 87 | 1,576 |
| Wood and articles of wood HS 44 | 1,390 |
| Paper and paperboard HS 48 | 1,344 |
| Furniture, bedding, lamps HS 94 | 1,274 |
Top manufacturing industries among Bulgaria's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2006 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.
| Manufacturing industry (ISIC) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289 | 2,076 |
| Plastics products ISIC 252 | 2,019 |
| Special purpose machinery ISIC 292 | 1,996 |
| General purpose machinery ISIC 291 | 1,712 |
| Wearing apparel, except fur ISIC 181 | 1,688 |
| Paper and paper products ISIC 210 | 1,304 |
| Other manufacturing ISIC 369 | 1,257 |
| Other textiles ISIC 172 | 1,185 |