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Bulgarian people are the poorest in the EU. The living standard in Bulgaria is three times lower compared to Austria, Sweden and Great Britain. In the last couple of years even Romanian takes the lead of Bulgaria, show the data on gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of the EU member-states. Bulgaria's GDP per capita is 40% of the average EU GDP, while in Luxembourg it is 6 times higher - 253%. Bulgarians are exactly two times poorer than the Czechs.
In Europe more impoverished countries than Bulgaria are just Macedonia with 32,5% of EU average GDP level, Serbia (37,2%), Bosnia and Herzegovina (29,9%) and Albania (25,2%).