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Norway: At-risk-of-poverty rate

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

Country: Norway Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Norway

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

11.30 Percent of people

European ranking

28 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

-4.0 puntos

Norway is 4.0 points below the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 0.63 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 11.30 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Nord-Norge

    +35.40

    15.30

  2. 2

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +19.50

    13.50

  3. 3

    Innlandet

    +11.50

    12.60

  4. 4

    Trøndelag

    +1.80

    11.50

  5. 5

    Oslo og Viken

    -4.40

    10.80

  6. 6

    Vestlandet

    -19.50

    9.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, Poverty risk is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 11.3% versus 16.2% in 2025, with a gap of 4.9 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 12.70% in 2020 to 11.30% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 11.60% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, Poverty risk shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Nord-Norge records the highest value (15.3%) and Vestlandet the lowest (9.1%), a gap of 6.2 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.