European ranking
30 / 30
No change from the previous year
Netherlands: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
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Country overview
Netherlands
Current reading for Inability to face unexpected financial expenses in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
Latest value
15.30 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
-13.8 puntos
Netherlands is 13.8 points below the European average.
EU: 29.09
Affected population
≈ 2.76 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses
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At a glance
Netherlands performs more 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 relative strength.
European comparison in Netherlands
In Netherlands, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 15.3% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 13.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 19.10% in 2020 to 15.30% in 2025. The latest step, from 16.90% in 2024 to 15.30% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Netherlands, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.