A hit to GDP of over €11 billion is lost each year in Bulgaria due to corruption. That’s 14% of GDP.

THE IMPACT OF CORRUPTION ON SOCIAL POLICIES

 The amount of money lost to corruption in Bulgaria is 1.8 times the entire socialexpenditure budget for the whole country, which is €6.1 billion. 

Breaking this down further, the €11 billion lost to corruption in Bulgaria is morethan 360 times bigger than the whole budget for the unemployed (around €31million). 

This figure is three times bigger than the national healthcare budget (almost €3.7billion) and 2.4 times spending on the elderly (almost €4.5 billion). 

This figure is more than 20 times the size of the policing budget (around €518 million); or, over 76 times the size of the budget for the fire service (€145 million). 

The €11 billion lost to corruption in Bulgaria is more than 460 times the housingbudget (€24 million). 

It is almost 10 times the size of the entire budget for family andchildren (€1.1 billion), and a whopping 110 times the national sickness and disability budget (almost €101 million). 

Bulgaria loses over 6 times the entire amount spent on education to corruption(€1.8 billion).

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