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Hungary: Material and social deprivation rate

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

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

Country overview

Hungary

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

Eurostat indicator: Material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

15.30 Percent of people

European ranking

5 / 29

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+3.5 puntos

Hungary is 3.5 points above the European average.

EU: 11.85

Affected population

≈ 1.46 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 15.30 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

    Észak-Magyarország

    +58.20

    24.20

  2. 2

    Észak-Alföld

    +45.10

    22.20

  3. 3

    Dél-Dunántúl

    +19.00

    18.20

  4. 4

    Pest

    +15.70

    17.70

  5. 5

    Dél-Alföld

    -2.60

    14.90

  6. 6

    Közép-Dunántúl

    -35.30

    9.90

  7. 7

    Budapest

    -47.70

    8.00

  8. 8

    Nyugat-Dunántúl

    -47.70

    8.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Hungary performs less 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 pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Hungary

In Hungary, Material deprivation is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 15.3% versus 11.4% in 2025, with a gap of 3.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Hungary, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 18.30% in 2020 to 15.30% in 2025. The latest step, from 16.30% in 2024 to 15.30% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Hungary

In Hungary, regional differences in Material deprivation are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Észak-Magyarország records the highest value (24.2%) and Budapest the lowest (8%), a gap of 16.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Hungary, 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.