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Finland: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Finland

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

28.10 Percent of people

European ranking

16 / 30

Worsened by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-1.2 puntos

Finland is 1.2 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 1.58 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 28.00 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

    Etelä-Suomi

    +3.90

    29.20

  2. 2

    Helsinki-Uusimaa

    +2.10

    28.70

  3. 3

    Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

    -0.40

    28.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Finland

In Finland, Unexpected expenses is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 28.0% versus 29.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Finland, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 25.40% in 2020 to 28.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 27.30% in 2024 to 28.00% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Finland

In Finland, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Etelä-Suomi records the highest value (29.2%) and Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi the lowest (28%), a gap of 1.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Finland, 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.