Bulgaria’s January – November 2025 road death toll is 414
A total of 414 people died in accidents on Bulgaria’s roads between January 1 and November 30 2025, according to provisional figures posted on December 1 by the Interior Ministry.
This is 18 fewer road deaths than the confirmed figure at the same time in 2024, the ministry said.
Between January 1 and November 30, there were 6139 accidents on Bulgaria’s roads that left people dead or seriously injured. A total of 7646 people were injured.
In November, there were 506 road accidents, leaving 40 people dead and 634 seriously injured.
As The Sofia Globe reported, Bulgaria had the European Union’s second-highest road death rate in 2024, the European Commission (EC) said in final official data on October 20, following the release of provisional data in March.
The EU’s highest road death rate in 2024 was in Romania, at 78 per million population. A total of 1478 people died in road accidents in Romania last year.
In Bulgaria, there were 478 road deaths last year, a rate of 74 per million population.
The number of road fatalities in 2024 in Bulgaria was nine per cent lower than in 2023, 24 per cent lower than in 2019 and 25 per cent lower than the average for 2017 to 2019.
