EU 29.09
· European ranking
26 / 30
Up 1 positions compared with previous year
Austria: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
20.90% of people
EU 29.09 · -8.2 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in households that cannot afford to meet an unexpected necessary financial expense from their available resources.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Inability to face unexpected financial expenses ilc_mdes04
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Regional map
· 2025 · 9 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+58.37
33.10
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2+8.13
22.60
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3-3.35
20.20
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4-15.31
17.70
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5-17.22
17.30
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6-20.10
16.70
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7-20.57
16.60
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8-27.27
15.20
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9-32.54
14.10
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Austria performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Austria
In Austria, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 20.9% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 8.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Austria, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 17.60% in 2020 to 20.90% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 20.90% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.
Regional differences in Austria
In Austria, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 9 comparable regions, Vienna records the highest value (33.1%) and Burgenland the lowest (14.1%), a gap of 19 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Austria, 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.