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Denmark: Material and social deprivation rate

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

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

Country overview

Denmark

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

Eurostat indicator: Material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

8.50 Percent of people

European ranking

18 / 29

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.4 puntos

Denmark is 3.4 points below the European average.

EU: 11.85

Affected population

≈ 0.51 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 8.50 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

    Syddanmark

    +17.60

    10.00

  2. 2

    Sjælland

    +12.90

    9.60

  3. 3

    Midtjylland

    +3.50

    8.80

  4. 4

    Hovedstaden

    -15.30

    7.20

  5. 5

    Nordjylland

    -18.80

    6.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Denmark performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate 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 Denmark

In Denmark, Material deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 8.5% versus 11.4% in 2025, with a gap of 2.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Denmark, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 6.60% in 2020 to 8.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 8.10% in 2024 to 8.50% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Denmark

In Denmark, regional values for Material deprivation are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Syddanmark records the highest value (10%) and Nordjylland the lowest (6.9%), a gap of 3.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Denmark, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.