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Netherlands: Severe material and social deprivation rate

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

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

Country overview

Netherlands

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

Eurostat indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

2.60 Percent of people

European ranking

18 / 23

Improved by 2 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.4 puntos

Netherlands is 3.4 points below the European average.

EU: 6.04

Affected population

≈ 0.47 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 2.60 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

    Overijssel

    +23.10

    3.20

  2. 2

    Noord-Brabant

    +23.10

    3.20

  3. 3

    Gelderland

    +19.20

    3.10

  4. 4

    Zuid-Holland Zuid

    +15.40

    3.00

  5. 5

    Noord-Holland

    +11.50

    2.90

  6. 6

    Zuid-Holland Centraal

    +7.70

    2.80

  7. 7

    Friesland (NL)

    -15.40

    2.20

  8. 8

    Limburg (NL)

    -42.30

    1.50

  9. 9

    Flevoland

    -50.00

    1.30

  10. 10

    Drenthe

    -73.10

    0.70

  11. 11

    Groningen

    -73.10

    0.70

  12. 12

    Zeeland

    -84.60

    0.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Netherlands performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. 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 Netherlands

In Netherlands, Severe deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 2.6% versus 6.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 2.20% in 2020 to 2.60% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 3.10% in 2024 to 2.60% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Netherlands

In Netherlands, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 12 comparable regions, Overijssel records the highest value (3.2%) and Zeeland the lowest (0.4%), a gap of 2.8 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Netherlands, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.