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France: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

Country overview

France

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

28.80 Percent of people

European ranking

15 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-0.5 puntos

France is 0.5 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 19.84 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 28.80 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

    Guyane

    +100.30

    57.70

  2. 2

    La Réunion

    +58.30

    45.60

  3. 3

    Guadeloupe

    +44.80

    41.70

  4. 4

    Martinique

    +30.90

    37.70

  5. 5

    Corse

    +26.40

    36.40

  6. 6

    Nord-Pas de Calais

    +23.30

    35.50

  7. 7

    Champagne-Ardenne

    +13.50

    32.70

  8. 8

    Lorraine

    +8.00

    31.10

  9. 9

    Languedoc-Roussillon

    +6.30

    30.60

  10. 10

    Auvergne

    +3.80

    29.90

  11. 11

    Picardie

    +2.10

    29.40

  12. 12

    Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur

    +0.70

    29.00

  13. 13

    Bourgogne

    —

    28.80

  14. 14

    Limousin

    -1.00

    28.50

  15. 15

    Franche-Comté

    -1.40

    28.40

  16. 16

    Île de France

    -1.70

    28.30

  17. 17

    Midi-Pyrénées

    -2.40

    28.10

  18. 18

    Aquitaine

    -2.40

    28.10

  19. 19

    Haute-Normandie

    -3.80

    27.70

  20. 20

    Poitou-Charentes

    -6.60

    26.90

  21. 21

    Pays de la Loire

    -8.00

    26.50

  22. 22

    Basse-Normandie

    -8.30

    26.40

  23. 23

    Alsace

    -10.10

    25.90

  24. 24

    Rhône-Alpes

    -11.10

    25.60

  25. 25

    Centre-Val de Loire

    -13.50

    24.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

France performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in France

In France, Unexpected expenses is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 28.8% versus 29.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In France, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 30.50% in 2020 to 28.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 29.40% in 2024 to 28.80% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in France

In France, regional differences in Unexpected expenses are pronounced. Across 26 comparable regions, Guyane records the highest value (57.7%) and Centre-Val de Loire the lowest (24.9%), a gap of 32.8 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In France, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.