European ranking
26 / 29
Improved by 4 positions since the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for Material and social deprivation rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Material and social deprivation rate
Latest value
5.60 Percent of people
European ranking
26 / 29
Improved by 4 positions since the previous year
Compared with Europe
-6.2 puntos
Norway is 6.2 points below the European average.
EU: 11.85
Affected population
≈ 0.31 million people affected
Year: 2025
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Material and social deprivation rate
Granularity: Regions
Innlandet
8.30
Trøndelag
6.90
Agder og Sør-Østlandet
6.90
Oslo og Viken
5.80
Vestlandet
4.10
Nord-Norge
4.00
Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Norway, Material deprivation stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 5.6% versus 11.4% in 2025, a large gap of 5.8 percentage points.
In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 4.30% in 2020 to 5.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 6.70% in 2024 to 5.60% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
In Norway, Material deprivation shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (8.3%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (4%), a gap of 4.3 percentage points.
In Norway, 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.