deviation
Sud-Est versus Romania
Sud-Est recorded a value of 27.2, compared with 16.8 in Romania, a gap of 10.4 points.
Highest Severe deprivation regions in Europe
Compare European regions using the indicator Severe material and social deprivation rate.
Indicator: severe_material_social_deprivation
Year: 2025
Granularity: nuts2
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Burden ranking
Regions most affected by quality of life
Higher values indicate higher burden.
Highest burden: Sud-Est (Romania) | Lowest burden: Zeeland (Netherlands)
Editorial summary
Key takeaways
- Region value: 27.2
- Country value: 16.8
- Gap points: 10.4
- Gap vs country (%): 61.9
- Sud-Est recorded a value of 27.2, compared with 16.8 in Romania, a gap of 10.4 points.
Editorial detail
Editorial insights
change
Sud-Est vs 2024
Sud-Est recorded 27.2 in 2025, compared with 26.4 in 2024, a change of 0.8 points.
outlier
Sud-Est stands out in Europe
Sud-Est shows an unusually strong deviation for Severe deprivation compared with its national benchmark.
Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate
Granularity: Regions
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1
Sud-Est
27.20
+0.80 -
2
Ionia Nisia
23.30
-4.70 -
3
Yugoiztochen
21.10
-1.60 -
4
Kentriki Makedonia
19.30
+3.70 -
5
Sud-Muntenia
19.20
-1.10 -
6
Severen tsentralen
19.10
-2.50 -
7
Yuzhen tsentralen
18.10
-4.00 -
8
Nord-Vest
17.40
+1.00 -
9
Peloponnisos
17.20
+1.20 -
10
Sud-Vest Oltenia
17.10
-1.70 -
11
Severozapaden
16.90
-1.00 -
12
Centru
16.80
+1.00 -
13
Attiki
15.90
+1.90 -
14
Notio Aigaio
15.60
+6.00 -
15
Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki
15.40
-6.00 -
16
Nord-Est
14.90
-2.30 -
17
Calabria
14.80
-10.10 -
18
Severoiztochen
14.10
+0.20 -
19
Észak-Magyarország
14.00
-4.10 -
20
Észak-Alföld
13.60
-0.10 -
21
Dytiki Makedonia
13.50
+0.20 -
22
Bucureşti-Ilfov
12.90
+2.50 -
23
Dytiki Ellada
12.00
-3.80 -
24
Ciudad de Melilla
11.80
+2.40 -
25
Sterea Ellada
11.60
-1.10 -
26
Prov. Hainaut
11.00
-2.40 -
27
Ciudad de Ceuta
11.00
-3.00 -
28
Bremen
10.90
+0.80 -
29
Andalucía
10.90
+0.30 -
30
Dél-Dunántúl
10.50
-1.40 -
31
Campania
10.00
-0.30 -
32
Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
9.90
-4.00 -
33
Castilla-La Mancha
9.80
+1.20 -
34
Thessalia
9.70
+2.00 -
35
Región de Murcia
9.60
+1.10 -
36
Pest
9.40
-2.10 -
37
Sicilia
9.40
+2.40 -
38
Canarias
9.30
-1.50 -
39
Puglia
9.30
-2.20 -
40
Kriti
9.10
-0.50 -
41
Dél-Alföld
9.00
+0.80 -
42
Cataluña
8.90
+0.30 -
43
Yugozapaden
8.40
-0.70 -
44
Comunidad de Madrid
8.40
-0.10 -
45
Thüringen
8.30
+1.80 -
46
Voreio Aigaio
8.10
+0.40 -
47
Düsseldorf
7.50
+0.00 -
48
Rheinhessen-Pfalz
7.30
-0.30 -
49
Saarland
7.30
-1.10 -
50
Arnsberg
7.20
-0.50 -
51
Ipeiros
7.20
-0.50 -
52
Galicia
7.10
+2.30 -
53
Weser-Ems
7.00
-0.80 -
54
Münster
7.00
-2.40 -
55
Comunitat Valenciana
6.90
-2.20 -
56
Braunschweig
6.80
-0.40 -
57
Principado de Asturias
6.70
+1.00 -
58
Castilla y León
6.70
+0.20 -
59
Região Autónoma dos Açores
6.70
-1.50 -
60
Detmold
6.60
-1.00 -
61
Köln
6.50
-1.00 -
62
Aragón
6.50
-1.70 -
63
Toscana
6.40
+4.10 -
64
Vest
6.40
-4.40 -
65
Kassel
6.30
-2.40 -
66
Extremadura
6.30
+1.30 -
67
Lüneburg
6.20
-1.70 -
68
Stuttgart
6.10
-1.70 -
69
Koblenz
6.10
-1.40 -
70
Hannover
6.00
-1.00 -
71
Região Autónoma da Madeira
6.00
+1.70 -
72
Berlin
5.60
+1.60 -
73
Hamburg
5.60
-0.80 -
74
Trier
5.60
+0.10 -
75
Karlsruhe
5.50
-0.90 -
76
Tübingen
5.50
-1.30 -
77
Brandenburg
5.40
+0.40 -
78
Abruzzo
5.30
-3.80 -
79
Darmstadt
5.20
-1.40 -
80
Gießen
5.20
-1.50 -
81
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
5.20
+0.00 -
82
Provincia Autonoma di Trento
5.20
+5.10 -
83
Área Metropolitana de Lisboa
5.10
+0.40 -
84
Prov. Namur
5.00
-2.00 -
85
Mittelfranken
5.00
+0.30 -
86
Midtjylland
5.00
+1.50 -
87
Cantabria
5.00
-1.00 -
88
Região Autónoma da Madeira
5.00
-0.40 -
89
Sjælland
4.90
+0.00 -
90
Comunidad Foral de Navarra
4.80
-1.50 -
91
Schleswig-Holstein
4.70
-0.80 -
92
Innlandet
4.60
+1.40 -
93
Freiburg
4.50
-0.70 -
94
Basilicata
4.50
+1.50 -
95
Östra Mellansverige
4.50
+0.70 -
96
Småland med öarna
4.50
+1.70 -
97
Prov. Antwerpen
4.40
+0.10 -
98
Prov. Brabant Wallon
4.40
-3.70 -
99
Chemnitz
4.40
-0.50 -
100
Hovedstaden
4.40
+0.40 -
101
Lombardia
4.40
+2.60 -
102
Alentejo
4.40
-1.60 -
103
Norra Mellansverige
4.40
+1.50 -
104
Syddanmark
4.30
+0.50 -
105
La Rioja
4.30
+0.60 -
106
Stockholm
4.30
+1.70 -
107
Budapest
4.10
+0.10 -
108
Helsinki-Uusimaa
4.00
-0.60 -
109
Nyugat-Dunántúl
4.00
+0.20 -
110
Sardegna
4.00
+1.20 -
111
Zachodniopomorskie
4.00
+0.00 -
112
Norte
4.00
-0.40 -
113
Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen
3.90
-0.80 -
114
Liguria
3.90
+1.80 -
115
Sydsverige
3.90
-0.70 -
116
Moravskoslezsko
3.80
-0.10 -
117
Sachsen-Anhalt
3.80
-0.50 -
118
Panonska Hrvatska
3.80
+0.30 -
119
Közép-Dunántúl
3.70
-0.40 -
120
Piemonte
3.70
+0.90 -
121
Kujawsko-Pomorskie
3.70
+0.00 -
122
Prov. Liège
3.60
-0.90 -
123
Illes Balears
3.60
-0.70 -
124
Prov. Luxembourg (BE)
3.50
-3.20 -
125
Leipzig
3.50
-2.00 -
126
Centro (PT)
3.50
+0.40 -
127
Jihozápad
3.40
+1.00 -
128
Unterfranken
3.40
+0.00 -
129
Dresden
3.40
+0.30 -
130
Nordjylland
3.20
-0.70 -
131
Overijssel
3.20
+0.60 -
132
Noord-Brabant
3.20
-0.60 -
133
Pomorskie
3.20
-0.30 -
134
Västsverige
3.20
+0.70 -
135
Oberbayern
3.10
-1.00 -
136
Gelderland
3.10
-0.70 -
137
Severozápad
3.00
-1.30 -
138
Severovýchod
3.00
+1.30 -
139
Niederbayern
3.00
-0.10 -
140
País Vasco
3.00
-1.60 -
141
Etelä-Suomi
3.00
-0.10 -
142
Zuid-Holland Zuid
3.00
+2.00 -
143
Agder og Sør-Østlandet
3.00
+0.20 -
144
Mellersta Norrland
3.00
+2.00 -
145
Oberfranken
2.90
-0.20 -
146
Noord-Holland
2.90
+0.00 -
147
Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi
2.80
+0.40 -
148
Zuid-Holland Centraal
2.80
-1.40 -
149
Algarve
2.80
+0.10 -
150
Praha
2.70
+0.40 -
151
Trøndelag
2.60
-0.70 -
152
Wielkopolskie
2.60
+0.00 -
153
Vzhodna Slovenija
2.60
-0.20 -
154
Střední Čechy
2.50
-0.30 -
155
Oslo og Viken
2.50
-0.60 -
156
Região Autónoma dos Açores
2.40
+0.20 -
157
Warmińsko-Mazurskie
2.30
-0.10 -
158
Łódzkie
2.30
-0.60 -
159
Schwaben
2.20
+0.00 -
160
Friesland (NL)
2.20
+0.50 -
161
Veneto
2.10
+0.50 -
162
Vestlandet
2.10
-0.30 -
163
Lubuskie
2.10
+0.20 -
164
Dolnośląskie
2.10
-1.40 -
165
Świętokrzyskie
2.10
+0.40 -
166
Lazio
2.00
-0.30 -
167
Podkarpackie
2.00
+0.30 -
168
Podlaskie
2.00
-0.40 -
169
Nord-Norge
1.90
+0.50 -
170
Lubelskie
1.90
+0.10 -
171
Prov. Vlaams-Brabant
1.80
-0.40 -
172
Sjeverna Hrvatska
1.80
-0.40 -
173
Umbria
1.80
+0.40 -
174
Śląskie
1.80
-0.50 -
175
Prov. Limburg (BE)
1.70
-0.50 -
176
Jihovýchod
1.70
-0.50 -
177
Emilia-Romagna
1.70
+0.40 -
178
Prov. West-Vlaanderen
1.60
-0.50 -
179
Oberpfalz
1.60
+0.60 -
180
Marche
1.50
+0.60 -
181
Limburg (NL)
1.50
-0.70 -
182
Střední Morava
1.40
-0.60 -
183
Övre Norrland
1.40
+0.10 -
184
Jadranska Hrvatska
1.30
+0.00 -
185
Flevoland
1.30
-0.10 -
186
Grad Zagreb
1.20
+0.10 -
187
Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen
1.20
+1.10 -
188
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
1.10
-0.50 -
189
Warszawski stołeczny
1.10
-0.30 -
190
Zahodna Slovenija
1.10
+0.40 -
191
Mazowiecki regionalny
1.00
+0.10 -
192
Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste
0.80
-0.10 -
193
Małopolskie
0.80
-0.30 -
194
Opolskie
0.80
-2.10 -
195
Molise
0.70
-2.30 -
196
Groningen
0.70
-0.80 -
197
Drenthe
0.70
-4.70 -
198
Zeeland
0.40
-1.20
Ranking highlights
2025 values. Changes compare 2025 vs 2024.
Severe material and social deprivation rate
Increase = worse
Decrease = better
By level in 2025
Top 5 regions
2025 values
- #1 Sud-Est 27.20
- #2 Ionia Nisia 23.30
- #3 Yugoiztochen 21.10
- #4 Kentriki Makedonia 19.30
- #5 Sud-Muntenia 19.20
Bottom 5 regions
2025 values
- #198 Zeeland 0.40
- #197 Drenthe 0.70
- #196 Groningen 0.70
- #195 Molise 0.70
- #194 Opolskie 0.80
By change (2025 vs 2024)
Largest increase vs previous year
2025 vs 2024
- #1 Notio Aigaio +6.00
- #2 Provincia Autonoma di Trento +5.10
- #3 Toscana +4.10
- #4 Kentriki Makedonia +3.70
- #5 Lombardia +2.60
Largest decrease vs previous year
2025 vs 2024
- #1 Calabria -10.10
- #2 Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki -6.00
- #3 Drenthe -4.70
- #4 Ionia Nisia -4.70
- #5 Vest -4.40