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Italy: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Italy

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

25.60 Percent of people

European ranking

18 / 30

Improved by 5 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.7 puntos

Italy is 3.7 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 15.09 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 25.60 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

    Calabria

    +61.70

    41.40

  2. 2

    Puglia

    +59.80

    40.90

  3. 3

    Sicilia

    +48.80

    38.10

  4. 4

    Campania

    +47.70

    37.80

  5. 5

    Sardegna

    +5.50

    27.00

  6. 6

    Abruzzo

    +4.30

    26.70

  7. 7

    Toscana

    -0.80

    25.40

  8. 8

    Basilicata

    -0.80

    25.40

  9. 9

    Piemonte

    -4.70

    24.40

  10. 10

    Veneto

    -11.30

    22.70

  11. 11

    Liguria

    -14.10

    22.00

  12. 12

    Lazio

    -14.50

    21.90

  13. 13

    Molise

    -24.20

    19.40

  14. 14

    Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste

    -27.30

    18.60

  15. 15

    Lombardia

    -27.30

    18.60

  16. 16

    Friuli-Venezia Giulia

    -30.50

    17.80

  17. 17

    Umbria

    -36.30

    16.30

  18. 18

    Emilia-Romagna

    -37.90

    15.90

  19. 19

    Marche

    -52.30

    12.20

  20. 20

    Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen

    -55.90

    11.30

  21. 21

    Provincia Autonoma di Trento

    -83.60

    4.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Italy performs more 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 Italy

In Italy, Unexpected expenses is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 25.6% versus 29.1% in 2025, with a gap of 3.5 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Italy, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 32.30% in 2020 to 25.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 29.90% in 2024 to 25.60% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Italy

In Italy, regional differences in Unexpected expenses are pronounced. Across 21 comparable regions, Calabria records the highest value (41.4%) and Provincia Autonoma di Trento the lowest (4.2%), a gap of 37.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Italy, 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 improvement.