EU 16.23
· European ranking
26 / 30
Down 7 positions compared with previous year
Slovakia: Poverty Rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
12.20% of people
EU 16.23 · -4.0 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people whose equivalised disposable income after social transfers is below 60% of the national median. It is a relative-income measure rather than a measure of absolute poverty.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat At-risk-of-poverty rate TESPM010
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2024 · 4 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+57.24
22.80
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2-5.52
13.70
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3-24.83
10.90
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4-51.72
7.00
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Slovakia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Slovakia
In Slovakia, Poverty risk is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 12.2% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 4.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Slovakia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 11.40% in 2020 to 12.20% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 14.50% in 2024 to 12.20% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Slovakia, 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.