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Serbia: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Serbia

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

36.10 Percent of people

European ranking

7 / 30

Worsened by 3 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+7.0 puntos

Serbia is 7.0 points above the European average.

EU: 29.09

Affected population

≈ 2.37 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 36.10 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

    Region Vojvodine

    +15.20

    41.60

  2. 2

    Region Šumadije i Zapadne Srbije

    +7.20

    38.70

  3. 3

    Region Južne i Istočne Srbije

    -7.80

    33.30

  4. 4

    Beogradski region

    -16.60

    30.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Serbia

In Serbia, Unexpected expenses stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 36.1% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 7.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Serbia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 36.50% in 2020 to 36.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 34.00% in 2024 to 36.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Serbia

In Serbia, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 4 comparable regions, Vojvodina records the highest value (41.6%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (30.1%), a gap of 11.5 percentage points.

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. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.