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Austria: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Austria Indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses Year: 2025

Country overview

Austria

Current reading for Inability to face unexpected financial expenses in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

20.90 Percent of people

European ranking

26 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-8.4 puntos

Austria is 8.4 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 1.92 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 20.90 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 29.09 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Wien

    +58.40

    33.10

  2. 2

    Vorarlberg

    +8.10

    22.60

  3. 3

    Kärnten

    -3.30

    20.20

  4. 4

    Steiermark

    -15.30

    17.70

  5. 5

    Niederösterreich

    -17.20

    17.30

  6. 6

    Oberösterreich

    -20.10

    16.70

  7. 7

    Tirol

    -20.60

    16.60

  8. 8

    Salzburg

    -27.30

    15.20

  9. 9

    Burgenland

    -32.50

    14.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Austria performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Austria

In Austria, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 20.9% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 8.2 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Austria, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 17.60% in 2020 to 20.90% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 20.90% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.

Regional differences in Austria

In Austria, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 9 comparable regions, Vienna records the highest value (33.1%) and Burgenland the lowest (14.1%), a gap of 19 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Austria, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.