European ranking
2 / 30
No change from the previous year
Latvia: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Latvia
Current reading for Inability to face unexpected financial expenses in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
Latest value
43.50 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
+14.4 puntos
Latvia is 14.4 points above the European average.
EU: 29.09
Affected population
≈ 0.81 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
Granularity: Regions
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Latvia
—43.50
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At a glance
Latvia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Latvia
In Latvia, Unexpected expenses stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 43.7% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 14.6 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Latvia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 45.60% in 2020 to 43.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 45.30% in 2024 to 43.70% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Latvia, 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.