EU 29.09
· European ranking
21 / 30
Up 3 positions compared with previous year
Sweden: Financial Vulnerability
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
23.00% of people
EU 29.09 · -6.1 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 · 8 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+15.65
26.60
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2+10.00
25.30
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3+3.48
23.80
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4+2.17
23.50
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5-0.87
22.80
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6-5.22
21.80
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7-10.00
20.70
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8-31.74
15.70
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Sweden performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to face unexpected financial expenses, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Sweden
In Sweden, Unexpected expenses stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 23.0% versus 29.1% in 2025, a large gap of 6.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Sweden, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 19.80% in 2020 to 23.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 22.30% in 2024 to 23.00% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Regional differences in Sweden
In Sweden, regional values for Unexpected expenses are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Sydsverige records the highest value (26.6%) and Övre Norrland the lowest (15.7%), a gap of 10.9 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Sweden, 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.