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Norway: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Norway

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

22.70 Percent of people

European ranking

22 / 30

Improved by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-6.6 puntos

Norway is 6.6 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 1.27 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 22.70 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

    Innlandet

    +21.10

    27.50

  2. 2

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +7.90

    24.50

  3. 3

    Oslo og Viken

    +0.40

    22.80

  4. 4

    Trøndelag

    -4.40

    21.70

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -6.60

    21.20

  6. 6

    Nord-Norge

    -8.40

    20.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 22.7% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 6.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 20.10% in 2020 to 22.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 23.60% in 2024 to 22.70% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (27.5%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (20.8%), a gap of 6.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, 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.