EU 29.09
· European ranking
23 / 30
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Poland: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
22.50% of people
EU 29.09 · -6.6 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 · 17 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+38.67
31.20
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2+32.00
29.70
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3+28.00
28.80
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4+18.67
26.70
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5+15.56
26.00
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6+14.22
25.70
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7+8.00
24.30
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8+7.11
24.10
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9+5.33
23.70
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10+4.00
23.40
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11-4.00
21.60
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12-4.44
21.50
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13-10.67
20.10
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14-11.56
19.90
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14-11.56
19.90
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16-19.56
18.10
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17-48.89
11.50
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Poland 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 Poland
In Poland, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 22.5% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 6.6 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Poland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 25.70% in 2020 to 22.50% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 22.80% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.
Regional differences in Poland
In Poland, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 17 comparable regions, Lubuskie records the highest value (31.2%) and Warszawski stołeczny the lowest (11.5%), a gap of 19.7 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Poland, 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.