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Ireland: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Ireland

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

30.60 Percent of people

European ranking

12 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+1.3 puntos

Ireland is 1.3 points above the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 1.66 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 30.60 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

    Southern

    +6.90

    32.70

  2. 2

    Northern and Western

    +1.60

    31.10

  3. 3

    Eastern and Midland

    -5.20

    29.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Ireland 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 Ireland

In Ireland, Unexpected expenses is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 30.6% versus 29.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.5 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Ireland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 33.40% in 2020 to 30.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 31.60% in 2024 to 30.60% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Ireland

In Ireland, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Southern Ireland records the highest value (32.7%) and Eastern and Midland Ireland the lowest (29%), a gap of 3.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Ireland, 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.