European ranking
28 / 30
No change from the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for Inability to face unexpected financial expenses in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
Latest value
18.70 Percent of people
European ranking
28 / 30
No change from the previous year
Compared with Europe
-10.6 puntos
Czechia is 10.6 points below the European average.
EU: 29.26
Affected population
≈ 2.04 million people affected
Year: 2025
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
Granularity: Regions
Severozápad
23.70
Moravskoslezsko
23.50
Severovýchod
22.00
Jihozápad
19.00
Střední Čechy
17.70
Jihovýchod
16.20
Střední Morava
15.90
Praha
13.50
Czechia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Czechia, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 18.7% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 10.4 percentage points.
In Czechia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 19.60% in 2020 to 18.70% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 19.20% in 2024 to 18.70% in 2025, shows material improvement and provides a clearer recent signal.
In Czechia, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Severozápad records the highest value (23.7%) and Praha the lowest (13.5%), a gap of 10.2 percentage points.
In Czechia, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.