EU 29.09
· European ranking
13 / 30
Up 3 positions compared with previous year
Hungary: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
30.50% of people
EU 29.09 · +1.4 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 · 8 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+51.80
46.30
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2+36.39
41.60
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3+18.36
36.10
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4+3.28
31.50
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5+1.31
30.90
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6-30.16
21.30
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7-35.74
19.60
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8-43.61
17.20
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Hungary performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Hungary
In Hungary, Unexpected expenses is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 30.5% versus 29.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Hungary, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 35.30% in 2020 to 30.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 28.60% in 2024 to 30.50% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
Regional differences in Hungary
In Hungary, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Észak-Alföld records the highest value (46.3%) and Budapest the lowest (17.2%), a gap of 29.1 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Hungary, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.