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Spain: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

Country overview

Spain

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

36.50 Percent of people

European ranking

6 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+7.2 puntos

Spain is 7.2 points above the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 17.93 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 36.40 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

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    +59.50

    58.20

  2. 2

    Canarias

    +36.70

    49.90

  3. 3

    Ciudad de Melilla

    +32.90

    48.50

  4. 4

    Región de Murcia

    +31.20

    47.90

  5. 5

    Andalucía

    +27.40

    46.50

  6. 6

    Castilla-La Mancha

    +13.70

    41.50

  7. 7

    Extremadura

    +2.20

    37.30

  8. 8

    Comunitat Valenciana

    +1.60

    37.10

  9. 9

    Cataluña

    -2.70

    35.50

  10. 10

    Comunidad de Madrid

    -14.50

    31.20

  11. 11

    Castilla y León

    -17.00

    30.30

  12. 12

    Principado de Asturias

    -18.40

    29.80

  13. 13

    Galicia

    -18.90

    29.60

  14. 14

    Illes Balears

    -19.20

    29.50

  15. 15

    Aragón

    -21.40

    28.70

  16. 16

    La Rioja

    -24.90

    27.40

  17. 17

    Cantabria

    -25.50

    27.20

  18. 18

    Comunidad Foral de Navarra

    -34.50

    23.90

  19. 19

    País Vasco

    -39.50

    22.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Spain

In Spain, Unexpected expenses stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 36.4% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 7.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Spain, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 35.40% in 2020 to 36.40% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 35.90% in 2024 to 36.40% in 2025, shows material deterioration and provides a clearer recent signal.

Regional differences in Spain

In Spain, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Ceuta records the highest value (58.2%) and País Vasco the lowest (22.1%), a gap of 36.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Spain, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.