EU 29.09
· European ranking
7 / 30
Up 3 positions compared with previous year
Serbia: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
36.10% of people
EU 29.09 · +7.0 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 · 4 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+15.24
41.60
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2+7.20
38.70
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3-7.76
33.30
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4-16.62
30.10
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Serbia
In Serbia, Unexpected expenses stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 36.1% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 7.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 36.50% in 2020 to 36.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 34.00% in 2024 to 36.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Regional differences in Serbia
In Serbia, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 4 comparable regions, Vojvodina records the highest value (41.6%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (30.1%), a gap of 11.5 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Serbia, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.