According to the annual survey in Bulgaria, conducted by Gallup International:
At the end of 2018, 22% of Bulgarians expect 2019 to be better than 2018, 30% worse and 31% the same. 17% cannot answer.
Thus, the net value of optimism in the country (shares of optimists for 2019 minus pessimists for 2019) is -8. Last year, this estimate was +3. This shows some decline in overall optimism, Gallup said.
Bulgaria is more pessimistic compared to the eastern part of the EU, like Romania which showing much more optimism (net worth +21). Bulgaria shows less optimism than the average and the EU as a whole.
According to the net estimates, the Albanian communities are most optimistic in the Balkans, and Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina at the other end. Bulgaria is in the middle.
15% of Bulgarians expect the coming year to be more peaceful for the world, 28% think the opposite, and 38% expect it to be the same. 19% find it difficult to answer. The net value is -13. With this net worth the country is close to the world average.
Review of 2018 by our political analyst Plamen Asenov.
