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Portugal: Financial Vulnerability

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Portugal

Latest value

· 2025

29.20% of people

EU 29.09 · +0.1 pp vs Europe

European ranking

14 / 30

Up 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

10.7M

Country population · 2025

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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· 2025 · 9 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +43.15

    41.80

  2. 2

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +38.36

    40.40

  3. 3

    Algarve

    +10.96

    32.40

  4. 4

    Península de Setúbal

    +5.82

    30.90

  5. 5

    Alentejo

    +2.05

    29.80

  6. 6

    Grande Lisboa

    +1.71

    29.70

  7. 7

    Oeste e Vale do Tejo

    +1.03

    29.50

  8. 8

    Norte

    -5.48

    27.60

  9. 9

    Centro (PT)

    -9.59

    26.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, although the difference is relatively small. 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 Portugal

In Portugal, Unexpected expenses is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 29.2% versus 29.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 30.80% in 2020 to 29.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 28.70% in 2024 to 29.20% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, Unexpected expenses shows noticeable regional variation. Across 9 comparable regions, Região Autónoma da Madeira records the highest value (41.8%) and Centro (PT) the lowest (26.4%), a gap of 15.4 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Portugal, 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 improvement.