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Belgium: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Belgium

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

22.10 Percent of people

European ranking

24 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-7.2 puntos

Belgium is 7.2 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 2.63 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 22.10 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

    Prov. Hainaut

    +86.40

    41.20

  2. 2

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    +84.20

    40.70

  3. 3

    Prov. Liège

    +51.10

    33.40

  4. 4

    Prov. Luxembourg (BE)

    -8.10

    20.30

  5. 5

    Prov. Namur

    -13.10

    19.20

  6. 6

    Prov. Antwerpen

    -14.00

    19.00

  7. 7

    Prov. Brabant Wallon

    -17.60

    18.20

  8. 8

    Prov. Limburg (BE)

    -40.70

    13.10

  9. 9

    Prov. West-Vlaanderen

    -47.10

    11.70

  10. 10

    Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen

    -48.90

    11.30

  11. 11

    Prov. Vlaams-Brabant

    -52.90

    10.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Belgium

In Belgium, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 22.1% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 7.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Belgium, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 23.20% in 2020 to 22.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 21.60% in 2024 to 22.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Belgium

In Belgium, regional differences in Unexpected expenses are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Prov. Hainaut records the highest value (41.2%) and Prov. Vlaams-Brabant the lowest (10.4%), a gap of 30.8 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Belgium, 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 improvement.