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Czechia: Poverty & Social Exclusion Risk

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

Latest value

· 2025

11.50% of people

EU 20.40 · -8.9 pp vs Europe

European ranking

30 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

10.9M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people experiencing at least one of three conditions: risk of poverty after social transfers, severe material and social deprivation, or living in a household with very low work intensity. People meeting more than one condition are counted only once.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion ILC_PEPS11N

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· 2025 · 8 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1
    +26.09

    14.50

  2. 2
    +19.13

    13.70

  3. 3
    +17.39

    13.50

  4. 4
    +5.22

    12.10

  5. 5
    -2.61

    11.20

  6. 6
    -3.48

    11.10

  7. 7

    Praha

    -20.87

    9.10

  8. 8
    -23.48

    8.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Czechia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 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 Czechia

In Czechia, Poverty or exclusion stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 11.5% versus 20.4% in 2025, a large gap of 8.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Czechia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 11.50% in 2020 to 11.50% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 11.30% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.

Regional differences in Czechia

In Czechia, regional values for Poverty or exclusion are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Moravskoslezsko records the highest value (14.5%) and Jihovýchod the lowest (8.8%), a gap of 5.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Czechia, 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.