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Poland: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Poland

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

22.20 Percent of people

European ranking

23 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-7.1 puntos

Poland is 7.1 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 8.10 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 22.50 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

    Lubuskie

    +40.50

    31.20

  2. 2

    Kujawsko-Pomorskie

    +33.80

    29.70

  3. 3

    Warmińsko-Mazurskie

    +29.70

    28.80

  4. 4

    Podkarpackie

    +20.30

    26.70

  5. 5

    Zachodniopomorskie

    +17.10

    26.00

  6. 6

    Łódzkie

    +15.80

    25.70

  7. 7

    Opolskie

    +9.50

    24.30

  8. 8

    Wielkopolskie

    +8.60

    24.10

  9. 9

    Pomorskie

    +6.80

    23.70

  10. 10

    Świętokrzyskie

    +5.40

    23.40

  11. 11

    Mazowiecki regionalny

    -2.70

    21.60

  12. 12

    Dolnośląskie

    -3.20

    21.50

  13. 13

    Podlaskie

    -9.50

    20.10

  14. 14

    Śląskie

    -10.40

    19.90

  15. 15

    Małopolskie

    -10.40

    19.90

  16. 16

    Lubelskie

    -18.50

    18.10

  17. 17

    Warszawski stołeczny

    -48.20

    11.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Poland 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. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Poland

In Poland, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 22.5% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 6.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Poland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 25.70% in 2020 to 22.50% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 22.80% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Poland

In Poland, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 17 comparable regions, Lubuskie records the highest value (31.2%) and Warszawski stołeczny the lowest (11.5%), a gap of 19.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Poland, 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 improvement.