EU 29.09
· European ranking
24 / 30
Up 1 positions compared with previous year
Belgium: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
22.10% of people
EU 29.09 · -7.0 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 · 11 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+86.43
41.20
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2+84.16
40.70
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3+51.13
33.40
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4-8.14
20.30
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5-13.12
19.20
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6-14.03
19.00
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7-17.65
18.20
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8-40.72
13.10
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9-47.06
11.70
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10-48.87
11.30
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11-52.94
10.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Belgium
In Belgium, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 22.1% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 7.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Belgium, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 23.20% in 2020 to 22.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 21.60% in 2024 to 22.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Regional differences in Belgium
In Belgium, regional differences in Unexpected expenses are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Prov. Hainaut records the highest value (41.2%) and Prov. Vlaams-Brabant the lowest (10.4%), a gap of 30.8 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Belgium, 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.