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Belgium: Material and social deprivation rate

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Country: Belgium Indicator: Material and social deprivation rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Belgium

Current reading for Material and social deprivation rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

9.40 Percent of people

European ranking

15 / 29

Improved by 4 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-2.5 puntos

Belgium is 2.5 points below the European average.

EU: 11.85

Affected population

≈ 1.12 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 9.40 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 11.38 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Material and social deprivation rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Prov. Hainaut

    +119.10

    20.60

  2. 2

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    +96.80

    18.50

  3. 3

    Prov. Liège

    +20.20

    11.30

  4. 4

    Prov. Namur

    +2.10

    9.60

  5. 5

    Prov. Luxembourg (BE)

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    9.40

  6. 6

    Prov. Brabant Wallon

    -6.40

    8.80

  7. 7

    Prov. Antwerpen

    -27.70

    6.80

  8. 8

    Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen

    -29.80

    6.60

  9. 9

    Prov. Limburg (BE)

    -55.30

    4.20

  10. 10

    Prov. Vlaams-Brabant

    -59.60

    3.80

  11. 11

    Prov. West-Vlaanderen

    -69.10

    2.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Belgium

In Belgium, Material deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 9.4% versus 11.4% in 2025, with a gap of 2.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Belgium, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 10.90% in 2020 to 9.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 11.10% in 2024 to 9.40% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.

Regional differences in Belgium

In Belgium, regional differences in Material deprivation are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Prov. Hainaut records the highest value (20.6%) and Prov. West-Vlaanderen the lowest (2.9%), a gap of 17.7 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Belgium, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.