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Hungary: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Hungary

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

30.40 Percent of people

European ranking

13 / 30

Worsened by 3 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+1.1 puntos

Hungary is 1.1 points above the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 2.90 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 30.50 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

    Észak-Alföld

    +52.30

    46.30

  2. 2

    Észak-Magyarország

    +36.80

    41.60

  3. 3

    Dél-Alföld

    +18.80

    36.10

  4. 4

    Pest

    +3.60

    31.50

  5. 5

    Dél-Dunántúl

    +1.60

    30.90

  6. 6

    Nyugat-Dunántúl

    -29.90

    21.30

  7. 7

    Közép-Dunántúl

    -35.50

    19.60

  8. 8

    Budapest

    -43.40

    17.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Hungary performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Hungary

In Hungary, Unexpected expenses is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 30.5% versus 29.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Hungary, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 35.30% in 2020 to 30.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 28.60% in 2024 to 30.50% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.

Regional differences in Hungary

In Hungary, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Észak-Alföld records the highest value (46.3%) and Budapest the lowest (17.2%), a gap of 29.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Hungary, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.