EU 29.09
· European ranking
22 / 30
Down 2 positions compared with previous year
Norway: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
22.70% of people
EU 29.09 · -6.4 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 · 6 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+21.15
27.50
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2+7.93
24.50
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3+0.44
22.80
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4-4.41
21.70
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5-6.61
21.20
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6-8.37
20.80
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Norway
In Norway, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 22.7% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 6.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 20.10% in 2020 to 22.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 23.60% in 2024 to 22.70% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Regional differences in Norway
In Norway, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (27.5%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (20.8%), a gap of 6.7 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Norway, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.