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Ireland: Material and social deprivation rate

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

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

Country overview

Ireland

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

Eurostat indicator: Material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

10.00 Percent of people

European ranking

14 / 29

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

-1.9 puntos

Ireland is 1.9 points below the European average.

EU: 11.85

Affected population

≈ 0.54 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 10.00 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

    Northern and Western

    +16.00

    11.60

  2. 2

    Eastern and Midland

    +4.00

    10.40

  3. 3

    Southern

    -17.00

    8.30

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At a glance

Ireland 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.

European comparison in Ireland

In Ireland, Material deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 10.0% versus 11.4% in 2025, with a gap of 1.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Ireland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 12.30% in 2020 to 10.00% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 9.70% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.

Regional differences in Ireland

In Ireland, regional values for Material deprivation are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Northern and Western Ireland records the highest value (11.6%) and Southern Ireland the lowest (8.3%), a gap of 3.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Ireland, 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.