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Germany: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

Country overview

Germany

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

31.90 Percent of people

European ranking

10 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+2.6 puntos

Germany is 2.6 points above the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 26.66 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 31.90 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

    Bremen

    +58.60

    50.60

  2. 2

    Arnsberg

    +25.10

    39.90

  3. 3

    Thüringen

    +22.30

    39.00

  4. 4

    Weser-Ems

    +22.30

    39.00

  5. 5

    Saarland

    +20.40

    38.40

  6. 6

    Braunschweig

    +17.60

    37.50

  7. 7

    Münster

    +16.60

    37.20

  8. 8

    Rheinhessen-Pfalz

    +13.20

    36.10

  9. 9

    Lüneburg

    +12.50

    35.90

  10. 10

    Trier

    +12.50

    35.90

  11. 11

    Düsseldorf

    +12.20

    35.80

  12. 12

    Gießen

    +10.70

    35.30

  13. 13

    Kassel

    +9.70

    35.00

  14. 14

    Detmold

    +9.40

    34.90

  15. 15

    Hannover

    +9.10

    34.80

  16. 16

    Koblenz

    +7.80

    34.40

  17. 17

    Freiburg

    +7.20

    34.20

  18. 18

    Schleswig-Holstein

    +6.60

    34.00

  19. 19

    Köln

    +5.30

    33.60

  20. 20

    Berlin

    +0.90

    32.20

  21. 21

    Karlsruhe

    +0.60

    32.10

  22. 22

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    +0.30

    32.00

  23. 23

    Brandenburg

    +0.30

    32.00

  24. 24

    Stuttgart

    -0.30

    31.80

  25. 25

    Sachsen-Anhalt

    -1.30

    31.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Germany performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a moderate gap. 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 Germany

In Germany, Unexpected expenses is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 31.9% versus 29.1% in 2025, with a gap of 2.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Germany, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 37.60% in 2020 to 31.90% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 32.20% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Germany

In Germany, regional differences in Unexpected expenses are pronounced. Across 38 comparable regions, Bremen records the highest value (50.6%) and Oberpfalz the lowest (10.4%), a gap of 40.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Germany, 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.