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Portugal: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Portugal

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

29.20 Percent of people

European ranking

14 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-0.1 puntos

Portugal is 0.1 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 3.14 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 29.20 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

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +43.20

    41.80

  2. 2

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +38.40

    40.40

  3. 3

    Algarve

    +11.00

    32.40

  4. 4

    Alentejo

    +5.80

    30.90

  5. 5

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +2.10

    29.80

  6. 6

    Área Metropolitana de Lisboa

    +1.70

    29.70

  7. 7

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +1.00

    29.50

  8. 8

    Norte

    -5.50

    27.60

  9. 9

    Centro (PT)

    -9.60

    26.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Portugal

In Portugal, Unexpected expenses is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 29.2% versus 29.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 30.80% in 2020 to 29.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 28.70% in 2024 to 29.20% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 9 comparable regions, Região Autónoma da Madeira records the highest value (41.8%) and Centro (PT) the lowest (26.4%), a gap of 15.4 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Portugal, 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.