For comparison, the share was 16.2% among people without a disability (no activity limitations).
In all EU countries, including Latvia, people with a disability were more likely to have difficulties in making ends meet in 2023 than people without a disability. The share of people with a disability living in a household that reported suffering such financial difficulties was less than a sixth in Luxembourg (10.5%), Finland (11.2%), the Netherlands (12.0%), Germany (14.7%; low reliability) and Sweden (16.5%). In contrast, it was above half in Greece (75.2%), and Bulgaria (50.2%).
Latvia was among the countries where living with a disability was more difficult than the EU average. More than a third of those with a disability (36.4%) found it difficult to make ends meet – double the rate of 17.8% among those without a disability.
One common consequence of difficult financial circumstances may be the inability to go on holiday. For Eurostat, this is measured as someone being unable to afford a 1 week holiday once a year. In the EU in 2023, people aged 16 years and over with a disability were more likely to find themselves in this position (40.4%) compared with people (of the same age) without a disability (24.2%).
For Latvia 46.6% of people with a disability were in this position compared with 22.6% of those without a disability – again, roughly double the rate.
In 2023, the share of people with a disability who lived in a household unable to afford a 1 week annual holiday was notably higher in eastern EU countries and Greece: 73.5% in Romania, 70.0% in Bulgaria, 64.7% in Hungary, 60.2% in Croatia and 57.6% in Greece; it was also high in all enlargement countries for which data are available. The lowest values among the EU countries were observed in Luxembourg (16.6%) and Finland (18.7%).
