European ranking
26 / 30
Improved by 7 positions since the previous year
Slovakia: At-risk-of-poverty rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Slovakia
Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
Latest value
12.20 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
-4.0 puntos
Slovakia is 4.0 points below the European average.
EU: 16.23
Affected population
≈ 0.66 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate
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At a glance
Slovakia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Slovakia
In Slovakia, Poverty risk is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 12.2% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 4.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Slovakia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 11.40% in 2020 to 12.20% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 14.50% in 2024 to 12.20% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Slovakia, 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.