European ranking
20 / 30
Up 1 positions compared with previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
ยท 2025
23.90% of people
EU 29.09 ยท -5.2 pp vs Europe
European ranking
20 / 30
Up 1 positions compared with previous year
Recent trend
Open trendPopulation
2.1M
Country population ยท 2025
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
ยท 2025 ยท 2 regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
29.00
18.40
Slovenia 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.
In Slovenia, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 23.9% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 5.2 percentage points.
In Slovenia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 29.60% in 2020 to 23.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 23.20% in 2024 to 23.90% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
In Slovenia, 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.