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Germany: Severe material and social deprivation rate

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Country: Germany Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Germany

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

Eurostat indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

5.60 Percent of people

European ranking

8 / 23

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-0.4 puntos

Germany is 0.4 points below the European average.

EU: 6.04

Affected population

≈ 4.68 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 5.60 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 6.01 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Bremen

    +94.60

    10.90

  2. 2

    Thüringen

    +48.20

    8.30

  3. 3

    Düsseldorf

    +33.90

    7.50

  4. 4

    Saarland

    +30.40

    7.30

  5. 5

    Rheinhessen-Pfalz

    +30.40

    7.30

  6. 6

    Arnsberg

    +28.60

    7.20

  7. 7

    Weser-Ems

    +25.00

    7.00

  8. 8

    Münster

    +25.00

    7.00

  9. 9

    Braunschweig

    +21.40

    6.80

  10. 10

    Detmold

    +17.90

    6.60

  11. 11

    Köln

    +16.10

    6.50

  12. 12

    Kassel

    +12.50

    6.30

  13. 13

    Lüneburg

    +10.70

    6.20

  14. 14

    Koblenz

    +8.90

    6.10

  15. 15

    Stuttgart

    +8.90

    6.10

  16. 16

    Hannover

    +7.10

    6.00

  17. 17

    Berlin

    —

    5.60

  18. 18

    Trier

    —

    5.60

  19. 19

    Hamburg

    —

    5.60

  20. 20

    Karlsruhe

    -1.80

    5.50

  21. 21

    Tübingen

    -1.80

    5.50

  22. 22

    Brandenburg

    -3.60

    5.40

  23. 23

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    -7.10

    5.20

  24. 24

    Darmstadt

    -7.10

    5.20

  25. 25

    Gießen

    -7.10

    5.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Germany performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Germany

In Germany, Severe deprivation is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 5.6% versus 6.0% in 2025, a gap of 0.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Germany, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.40% in 2020 to 5.60% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 6.20% in 2024 to 5.60% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Germany

In Germany, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 38 comparable regions, Bremen records the highest value (10.9%) and Oberpfalz the lowest (1.6%), a gap of 9.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Germany, 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.