European ranking
20 / 29
No change from the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for Material and social deprivation rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Material and social deprivation rate
Latest value
7.50 Percent of people
European ranking
20 / 29
No change from the previous year
Compared with Europe
-4.3 puntos
Finland is 4.3 points below the European average.
EU: 11.85
Affected population
≈ 0.42 million people affected
Year: 2025
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Material and social deprivation rate
Granularity: Regions
Helsinki-Uusimaa
8.60
Etelä-Suomi
7.10
Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi
6.30
Finland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Finland, Material deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 7.5% versus 11.4% in 2025, with a gap of 3.9 percentage points.
In Finland, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 4.60% in 2020 to 7.50% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 7.60% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.
In Finland, regional values for Material deprivation are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Helsinki-Uusimaa records the highest value (8.6%) and Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi the lowest (6.3%), a gap of 2.3 percentage points.
In Finland, 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.