According to their data set the GINI coefficient in Bulgaria grew from 26 (2001) to 45.3 (2007). This is a dramatic change from one of the lowest positions in Europe to the highest in just 6 years. It is hard to believe. Could you make any suggestions where to search for a more reliable data set for income inequalities?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2172.html
I admit to having no knowledge of this data but here is a link for the World Income Inequality Database: http://www.nsd.uib.no/macrodataguide/set.html?id=49&sub=1. Not sure if this will be useful to you or give you some leads. You may already know of it, but thought I'd pass it on anyway. I do think there can be mistakes in any data pool. Humans still have a hand in anything that ends up in a database, so error is always a possibility. I wish you luck on finding what you need.
Thank you very much. This seems much more comprehensive, I found different data there but still there are large inconsistencies. For sure, though, World Factbook is wrong as non of the data shows values higher than 40.
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rough confirmation from eurostat (BG grew from 26 in 2002 to 35 (only ...) in 2011)
data table available on line
http://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=ilc_di12&lang=fr
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