EU 29.09
· European ranking
12 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Ireland: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
30.60% of people
EU 29.09 · +1.5 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
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 3 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+6.86
32.70
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2+1.63
31.10
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3-5.23
29.00
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Ireland performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Ireland
In Ireland, Unexpected expenses is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 30.6% versus 29.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Ireland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 33.40% in 2020 to 30.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 31.60% in 2024 to 30.60% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Regional differences in Ireland
In Ireland, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Southern Ireland records the highest value (32.7%) and Eastern and Midland Ireland the lowest (29%), a gap of 3.7 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Ireland, Poverty & Financial Vulnerability shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.