EU 29.09
· European ranking
27 / 30
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Denmark: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
20.10% of people
EU 29.09 · -9.0 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 · 5 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+10.95
22.30
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2+8.46
21.80
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3+4.48
21.00
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4-2.99
19.50
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5-10.95
17.90
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Denmark performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Denmark
In Denmark, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 20.1% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 9.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Denmark, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 22.70% in 2020 to 20.10% in 2025. The latest step, from 21.10% in 2024 to 20.10% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Regional differences in Denmark
In Denmark, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Syddanmark records the highest value (22.3%) and Hovedstaden the lowest (17.9%), a gap of 4.4 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Denmark, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.