European ranking
6 / 30
Worsened by 2 positions since the previous year
Serbia: At-risk-of-poverty rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Serbia
Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Latest value
19.60 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
+3.4 puntos
Serbia is 3.4 points above the European average.
EU: 16.23
Affected population
≈ 1.29 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
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At a glance
Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Serbia
In Serbia, Poverty risk is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 19.6% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 3.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 22.40% in 2020 to 19.60% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 19.70% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.
Reading within the topic
In Serbia, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.