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Greece: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Greece

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

50.50 Percent of people

European ranking

1 / 30

Worsened by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+21.2 puntos

Greece is 21.2 points above the European average.

EU: 29.26

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 50.50 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

    Peloponnisos

    +25.30

    63.30

  2. 2

    Ionia Nisia

    +22.20

    61.70

  3. 3

    Kentriki Makedonia

    +16.40

    58.80

  4. 4

    Dytiki Makedonia

    +14.90

    58.00

  5. 5

    Thessalia

    +8.90

    55.00

  6. 6

    Voreio Aigaio

    +6.50

    53.80

  7. 7

    Dytiki Ellada

    +5.90

    53.50

  8. 8

    Sterea Ellada

    -1.00

    50.00

  9. 9

    Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki

    -1.40

    49.80

  10. 10

    Notio Aigaio

    -4.20

    48.40

  11. 11

    Attiki

    -11.50

    44.70

  12. 12

    Ipeiros

    -14.50

    43.20

  13. 13

    Kriti

    -14.70

    43.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Greece performs less 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 pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Greece

In Greece, Unexpected expenses stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 50.5% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 21.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Greece, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 50.70% in 2020 to 50.50% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 43.90% in 2024 to 50.50% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Greece

In Greece, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 13 comparable regions, Peloponnisos records the highest value (63.3%) and Kriti the lowest (43.1%), a gap of 20.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Greece, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.