Bulgaria’s 2025 road death toll is 456
A total of 456 people died in road deaths in Bulgaria in 2025, 22 fewer than in 2024, the Interior Ministry said on January 1, citing provisional data.
There were 6647 road accidents in Bulgaria in 2025 in which people died or were seriously injured, the ministry said.
A total of 8281 were seriously injured.
In December 2025, there were 506 serious road accidents, leaving 45 people dead and 632 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.
