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Slovakia: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Slovakia Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Slovakia

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

16.70 Percent of people

European ranking

24 / 30

Compared with Europe

-3.3 puntos

Slovakia is 3.3 points below the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 0.91 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 16.70 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Východné Slovensko

    +57.50

    26.30

  2. 2

    Stredné Slovensko

    -1.20

    16.50

  3. 3

    Západné Slovensko

    -16.20

    14.00

  4. 4

    Bratislavský kraj

    -82.60

    2.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Slovakia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Slovakia

In Slovakia, Poverty or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 16.7% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 3.7 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Slovakia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 13.80% in 2020 to 16.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 18.30% in 2024 to 16.70% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Slovakia

In Slovakia, regional differences in Poverty or exclusion are pronounced. Across 4 comparable regions, Eastern Slovakia records the highest value (26.3%) and Bratislava Region the lowest (2.9%), a gap of 23.4 percentage points.

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.