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Bulgaria vs Moldova

127 shared metrics.

BulgariaLeads in 88

vs127 shared

MoldovaLeads in 39

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Bulgaria

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Bulgaria.

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Identity

Name origin: named after the Bulgar tribes who settled the lower Balkan region in the 7th century A.D.

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Moldova

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Republic of Moldova.

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Curated stat

WHO data has placed Moldova among the world's highest countries for adult alcohol consumption per person.

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Analysis

Bulgaria leads in 88 of 127 shared metrics, while Moldova leads in 39.

Bulgaria's Tourist Arrivals is 170.5x that of Moldova (4.97M vs 29.0K).

Bulgaria's GDP Growth Rate is 31.9x that of Moldova (3.4% vs 0.10%).

Bulgaria's All-Time Olympic Medals is 22.9x that of Moldova (239 medals vs 10 medals).

Bulgaria's Scientific Publications is 15.8x that of Moldova (4.8K vs 283.96).

Bulgaria's Electric Generating Capacity is 15.6x that of Moldova (12.94M kW vs 779.0K kW).

Key Comparisons

Tourist ArrivalsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

4.97M

Moldova

29.0K

GDP Growth RateBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

3.4%

Moldova

0.10%

All-Time Olympic MedalsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

239 medals

Moldova

10 medals

Scientific PublicationsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

4.8K

Moldova

283.96

Electric Generating CapacityBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

12.94M kW

Moldova

779.0K kW

AirportsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

109

Moldova

All Metrics

Tourist Arrivals

Bulgaria

4.97M

Moldova

29.0K

17048% higher

GDP Growth Rate

Bulgaria

3.4%

Moldova

0.10%

3185% higher

All-Time Olympic Medals

Bulgaria

239 medals

Moldova

10 medals

2290% higher

Scientific Publications

Bulgaria

4.8K

Moldova

283.96

1585% higher

Electric Generating Capacity

Bulgaria

12.94M kW

Moldova

779.0K kW

1561% higher

Airports

Bulgaria

109

Moldova

990% higher

Forest Area

Bulgaria

39.3K km²

Moldova

3.9K km²

917% higher

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Bulgaria

10 sites

Moldova

1.0 sites

900% higher

Electricity Generation

Bulgaria

37.13 TWh

Moldova

5.2 TWh

613% higher

Solar Electricity Share

Bulgaria

18.15%

Moldova

2.6%

598% higher

Highest Elevation

Bulgaria

2.9K m

Moldova

430 m

580% higher

Capital Elevation

Bulgaria

560 m

Moldova

85 m

559% higher

Water Withdrawal

Bulgaria

5.4 B m³

Moldova

0.85 B m³

543% higher

GDP (Nominal)

Bulgaria

$113,343,355,779.99

Moldova

$18,200,340,853.65

523% higher

Armed Forces Personnel

Bulgaria

37.0K

Moldova

6.0K

517% higher

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Bulgaria

11.16 per 100k people

Moldova

1.8 per 100k people

515% higher

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)

Tourism Revenue

Bulgaria

$1,792,000,000

Moldova

$354,000,000

406% higher

High-Tech Exports (%)

Bulgaria

13.43%

Moldova

2.9%

359% higher

Total CO2 Emissions

Bulgaria

34.19 Mt CO2e

Moldova

8.2 Mt CO2e

317% higher

Protected Land (%)

Bulgaria

44.3%

Moldova

11.5%

285% higher

Comparison of Bulgaria and Moldova across 127 metrics
				Winner
Tourist Arrivals	4.97M	29.0K	17048% higher	Bulgaria
GDP Growth Rate	3.4%	0.10%	3185% higher	Bulgaria
All-Time Olympic Medals	239 medals	10 medals	2290% higher	Bulgaria
Scientific Publications	4.8K	283.96	1585% higher	Bulgaria
Electric Generating Capacity	12.94M kW	779.0K kW	1561% higher	Bulgaria
Airports	109	10	990% higher	Bulgaria
Forest Area	39.3K km²	3.9K km²	917% higher	Bulgaria
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	10 sites	1.0 sites	900% higher	Bulgaria
Electricity Generation	37.13 TWh	5.2 TWh	613% higher	Bulgaria
Solar Electricity Share	18.15%	2.6%	598% higher	Bulgaria
Highest Elevation	2.9K m	430 m	580% higher	Bulgaria
Capital Elevation	560 m	85 m	559% higher	Bulgaria
Water Withdrawal	5.4 B m³	0.85 B m³	543% higher	Bulgaria
GDP (Nominal)	$113,343,355,779.99	$18,200,340,853.65	523% higher	Bulgaria
Armed Forces Personnel	37.0K	6.0K	517% higher	Bulgaria
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	11.16 per 100k people	1.8 per 100k people	515% higher	Bulgaria
Tourism Revenue	$1,792,000,000	$354,000,000	406% higher	Bulgaria
High-Tech Exports (%)	13.43%	2.9%	359% higher	Bulgaria
Total CO2 Emissions	34.19 Mt CO2e	8.2 Mt CO2e	317% higher	Bulgaria
Protected Land (%)	44.3%	11.5%	285% higher	Bulgaria
Military Spending	2.1% of GDP	0.60% of GDP	260% higher	Bulgaria
Researchers	2.6K per 1M	717.42 per 1M	256% higher	Bulgaria
Railway Network	4.0K km	1.1K km	251% higher	Bulgaria
Railway Length	4.0K km	1.2K km	244% higher	Bulgaria
R&D Spending (% GDP)	0.75% of GDP	0.22% of GDP	238% higher	Bulgaria
Land Area	108.6K km²	32.9K km²	230% higher	Bulgaria
Forest Coverage (%)	36.22%	11.74%	209% higher	Bulgaria
Unemployment Rate	4.1%	1.4%	186% higher	Bulgaria
Beer Consumption	4.4 L/person/yr	1.6 L/person/yr	180% higher	Bulgaria
CO2 Per Capita	4.7 t/person/yr	1.8 t/person/yr	167% higher	Bulgaria
Insufficient Physical Activity	30.99% of adults	11.69% of adults	165% higher	Bulgaria
Domestic Patents	165	64	158% higher	Bulgaria
Health Spending Per Capita	$1,011.09	$398.15	154% higher	Bulgaria
Border Neighbors	5.0	2.0	150% higher	Bulgaria
Youth Unemployment Rate	10.15% of youth labor force	4.2% of youth labor force	142% higher	Bulgaria
Spirits Consumption	4.8 L/person/yr	2.1 L/person/yr	132% higher	Bulgaria
GNI Per Capita	$15,370	$6,880	123% higher	Bulgaria
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$41,519.54	$18,614.99	123% higher	Bulgaria
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	5.4K kWh/person	2.4K kWh/person	122% higher	Bulgaria
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	5.3 per 1M people	2.5 per 1M people	112% higher	Bulgaria
Energy Use (Per Capita)	2.6K kg oil eq/person	1.3K kg oil eq/person	101% higher	Bulgaria
Political Corruption Index	0.64	0.33	98% higher	Bulgaria
Informal Employment Share	4.1% of employed people	55.37% of employed people	93% lower	Moldova
Firms Making Informal Payments	0.72% of firms	6.8% of firms	89% lower	Moldova
Population	6.74M	3.58M	88% higher	Bulgaria
Firms Asked for Bribes	0.92% of firms	7.1% of firms	87% lower	Moldova
Vehicles per 1,000 People	584.81 per 1k people	319.01 per 1k people	83% higher	Bulgaria
Exports (% GDP)	56.37% of GDP	31.41% of GDP	79% higher	Bulgaria
Teen Birth Rate	39.1 per 1k	23.04 per 1k	70% higher	Bulgaria
Urban Population (%)	73.95%	43.52%	70% higher	Bulgaria
Infant Mortality	5.0 per 1k births	13.5 per 1k births	63% lower	Moldova
Firms Hit by Power Outages	20.19% of firms	50.94% of firms	60% lower	Moldova
Child Mortality	6.1 per 1k births	14.7 per 1k births	59% lower	Moldova
Credit Card Ownership	12.59% of adults	8.0% of adults	58% higher	Bulgaria
Homicide Rate	1.1 per 100k	2.5 per 100k	57% lower	Moldova
Irrigated Land	929 km²	2.1K km²	57% lower	Moldova
Electricity Carbon Intensity	275.55 gCO2/kWh	633.12 gCO2/kWh	56% lower	Moldova
Digital Payments Used	77.6% of adults	50.46% of adults	54% higher	Bulgaria
Meat Consumption per Person	58.32 kg/person/yr	38.12 kg/person/yr	53% higher	Bulgaria
Seafood Consumption per Person	7.3 kg/person/yr	15.25 kg/person/yr	52% lower	Moldova
Foreign Patents	6.0	12	50% lower	Moldova
Water Stress (%)	25.92%	52.22%	50% lower	Moldova
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	92.7 per 100k	61.75 per 100k	50% higher	Bulgaria
Inflation Rate	2.4%	4.7%	49% lower	Moldova
Women in Parliament (%)	20.83%	40.82%	49% lower	Moldova
Inequality (Gini)	39.5	26.8	47% higher	Bulgaria
Agricultural Land (%)	46.09%	74.1%	38% lower	Moldova
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	7.8 per 1k	5.7 per 1k	37% higher	Bulgaria
Elderly Population (%)	22.03%	16.21%	36% higher	Bulgaria
Wind Electricity Share	3.5%	2.6%	34% higher	Bulgaria
Smoking Rate	39.5%	29.7%	33% higher	Bulgaria
Tobacco Use Prevalence	38.7% of adults	29.1% of adults	33% higher	Bulgaria
Broadband Access (%)	36 per 100 people	27 per 100 people	33% higher	Bulgaria
Suicide Rate	9.5 per 100k	14.14 per 100k	33% lower	Moldova
Education Spending (% GDP)	4.5% of GDP	6.6% of GDP	32% lower	Moldova
Population Density	59.38 /km²	85.44 /km²	30% lower	Moldova
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	20 days/yr	28 days/yr	29% lower	Moldova
Safe Drinking Water (%)	96.21%	75.82%	27% higher	Bulgaria
Youth Population (%)	14.47%	19.79%	27% lower	Moldova
Nurses & Midwives	4.7 per 1k	6.1 per 1k	24% lower	Moldova
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	3.1% of GDP	2.5% of GDP	22% higher	Bulgaria
Fertility Rate	1.5 children/woman	1.3 children/woman	20% higher	Bulgaria
Median Age	44.3 years	37.8 years	17% higher	Bulgaria
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	17.15 µg/m³	14.76 µg/m³	16% higher	Bulgaria
Freedom of Expression Index	0.75	0.65	16% higher	Bulgaria
Air Passengers	723.8K	827.6K	13% lower	Moldova
Government Debt (% GDP)	30.1% of GDP	34.3% of GDP	12% lower	Moldova
Liberal Democracy Index	0.50	0.45	11% higher	Bulgaria
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	20.51% of GDP	18.59% of GDP	10% higher	Bulgaria
Health Spending (% GDP)	7.7% of GDP	7.0% of GDP	10% higher	Bulgaria
Firms with Female Top Manager	23.5% of firms	21.58% of firms	9% higher	Bulgaria
Human Development Index	0.84	0.79	8% higher	Bulgaria
Hypertension Prevalence	45.2% of adults	49% of adults	8% lower	Moldova
Doctors (per 1,000)	4.3 per 1k	4.0 per 1k	8% higher	Bulgaria
Electoral Democracy Index	0.60	0.55	8% higher	Bulgaria
Road Traffic Death Rate	8.4 per 100k	9.1 per 100k	8% lower	Moldova
University Enrollment Rate	79.85%	74.71%	7% higher	Bulgaria
Imports (% GDP)	53.86% of GDP	57.25% of GDP	6% lower	Moldova
Birth Rate	7.9 per 1k	8.3 per 1k	6% lower	Moldova
Life Expectancy	75.7 years	71.2 years	6% higher	Bulgaria
Food Waste per Person	95 kg/person/yr	101.37 kg/person/yr	6% lower	Moldova
Obesity Rate	24.25%	25.64%	5% lower	Moldova
Corruption Perceptions Index	40 pts	42 pts	5% lower	Moldova
Renewable Energy (%)	20.4%	21.4%	5% lower	Moldova
Skilled Birth Attendance (%)	94.5%	99.6%	5% lower	Moldova
Alcohol Consumption	11.62 L/adult/yr	11.08 L/adult/yr	5% higher	Bulgaria
Merchant Fleet Size	78	75	4% higher	Bulgaria
Land Border Length	1.8K km	1.9K km	4% lower	Moldova
Internet Users (%)	82.44%	80%	3% higher	Bulgaria
Life Evaluation Score	5.7 pts	5.9 pts	3% lower	Moldova
Dependency Ratio	57.49% of working-age pop.	56.25% of working-age pop.	2% higher	Bulgaria
Average Weekly Work Hours	38.6 hrs/week	39.42 hrs/week	2% lower	Moldova
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	118 per 100 people	120 per 100 people	2% lower	Moldova
Can Raise Emergency Money	87.88% of adults	90.12% of adults	2% lower	Moldova
Women's Political Empowerment	0.91	0.90	1% higher	Bulgaria
Sanitation Access (%)	86.08%	86.88%	1% lower	Moldova
Death Rate	14.18 per 1k	14.06 per 1k	1% higher	Bulgaria
Time Zones Count	1.0 time zones	1.0 time zones	equal	Bulgaria
Milk Consumption per Person	155.71 kg/person/yr	155.18 kg/person/yr	equal	Bulgaria
Coastline Length	354 km	0 km	ranked higher	Bulgaria
Coal Electricity Share	22.52%	0%	ranked higher	Bulgaria
Electricity Access (%)	100%	100%	equal	Bulgaria
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.15 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Bulgaria
Lowest Elevation	0 m	2.0 m	ranked lower	Moldova
Official Languages Count	1.0	1.0	equal	Bulgaria
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-5.9% of GDP	-19.1% of GDP	ranked higher	Bulgaria
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	58 gold medals	0 gold medals	ranked higher	Bulgaria

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Analysis

Bulgaria leads in 88 of 127 shared metrics, while Moldova leads in 39.

Bulgaria's Tourist Arrivals is 170.5x that of Moldova (4.97M vs 29.0K).

Bulgaria's GDP Growth Rate is 31.9x that of Moldova (3.4% vs 0.10%).

Bulgaria's All-Time Olympic Medals is 22.9x that of Moldova (239 medals vs 10 medals).

Bulgaria's Scientific Publications is 15.8x that of Moldova (4.8K vs 283.96).

Bulgaria's Electric Generating Capacity is 15.6x that of Moldova (12.94M kW vs 779.0K kW).

Key Comparisons

Tourist ArrivalsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

4.97M

Moldova

29.0K

GDP Growth RateBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

3.4%

Moldova

0.10%

All-Time Olympic MedalsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

239 medals

Moldova

10 medals

Scientific PublicationsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

4.8K

Moldova

283.96

Electric Generating CapacityBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

12.94M kW

Moldova

779.0K kW

AirportsBulgaria leads

Bulgaria

109

Moldova

Tourist Arrivals

4.97M

29.0K

GDP Growth Rate

3.4%

0.10%

All-Time Olympic Medals

239 medals

10 medals

Scientific Publications

4.8K

283.96

Electric Generating Capacity

12.94M kW

779.0K kW

Airports

109

Forest Area

39.3K km²

3.9K km²

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

10 sites

1.0 sites

Electricity Generation

37.13 TWh

5.2 TWh

Solar Electricity Share

18.15%

2.6%

Highest Elevation

2.9K m

430 m

Capital Elevation

560 m

85 m

Water Withdrawal

5.4 B m³

0.85 B m³

GDP (Nominal)

$113,343,355,779.99

$18,200,340,853.65

Armed Forces Personnel

37.0K

6.0K

11.16 per 100k people

1.8 per 100k people

Tourism Revenue

$1,792,000,000

$354,000,000

High-Tech Exports (%)

13.43%

2.9%

Total CO2 Emissions

34.19 Mt CO2e

8.2 Mt CO2e

Protected Land (%)

44.3%

11.5%

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Tourist Arrivals

GDP Growth Rate

All-Time Olympic Medals

Scientific Publications

Electric Generating Capacity

Airports

Forest Area

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Electricity Generation

Solar Electricity Share

Highest Elevation

Capital Elevation

Water Withdrawal

GDP (Nominal)

Armed Forces Personnel

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Tourism Revenue

High-Tech Exports (%)

Total CO2 Emissions

Protected Land (%)

Military Spending

Researchers

Railway Network

Railway Length

R&D Spending (% GDP)

Land Area

Forest Coverage (%)

Unemployment Rate

Beer Consumption

CO2 Per Capita

Insufficient Physical Activity

Domestic Patents

Health Spending Per Capita

Border Neighbors

Youth Unemployment Rate

Spirits Consumption

GNI Per Capita

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

McDonald's Outlets per Million People

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Political Corruption Index

Informal Employment Share

Firms Making Informal Payments

Population

Firms Asked for Bribes

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Exports (% GDP)

Teen Birth Rate

Urban Population (%)

Infant Mortality

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Child Mortality

Credit Card Ownership

Homicide Rate

Irrigated Land

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Digital Payments Used

Meat Consumption per Person

Seafood Consumption per Person

Foreign Patents

Water Stress (%)

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Inflation Rate

Women in Parliament (%)

Inequality (Gini)

Agricultural Land (%)

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Elderly Population (%)

Wind Electricity Share

Smoking Rate

Tobacco Use Prevalence