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Albania: Severe material and social deprivation rate
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Country overview
Albania
Current reading for Severe material and social deprivation rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate
Latest value
34.80 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
+27.3 puntos
Albania is 27.3 points above the European average.
EU: 7.48
Affected population
≈ 0.96 million people affected
Year: 2023
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Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate
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At a glance
Albania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Albania
In Albania, Severe deprivation stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 34.8% versus 7.5% in 2023, a large gap of 27.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Albania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 46.70% in 2018 to 34.80% in 2023. The latest step, from 37.00% in 2022 to 34.80% in 2023, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Regional differences in Albania
In Albania, regional values for Severe deprivation are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Northern Albania records the highest value (36.3%) and Southern Albania the lowest (33%), a gap of 3.3 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Albania, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.