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Sweden: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

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

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

Country overview

Sweden

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to face unexpected financial expenses

Latest value

23.10 Percent of people

European ranking

21 / 30

Worsened by 3 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-6.2 puntos

Sweden is 6.2 points below the European average.

EU: 29.26

Affected population

≈ 2.45 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 23.00 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

    Sydsverige

    +15.20

    26.60

  2. 2

    Östra Mellansverige

    +9.50

    25.30

  3. 3

    Norra Mellansverige

    +3.00

    23.80

  4. 4

    Småland med öarna

    +1.70

    23.50

  5. 5

    Stockholm

    -1.30

    22.80

  6. 6

    Mellersta Norrland

    -5.60

    21.80

  7. 7

    Västsverige

    -10.40

    20.70

  8. 8

    Övre Norrland

    -32.00

    15.70

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Sweden performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Sweden

In Sweden, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 23.0% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 6.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Sweden, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 19.80% in 2020 to 23.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 22.30% in 2024 to 23.00% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Sweden

In Sweden, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Sydsverige records the highest value (26.6%) and Övre Norrland the lowest (15.7%), a gap of 10.9 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Sweden, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.