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Norway: Material and social deprivation rate

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

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

Country overview

Norway

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

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 5.60 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

    Innlandet

    +48.20

    8.30

  2. 2

    Trøndelag

    +23.20

    6.90

  3. 3

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +23.20

    6.90

  4. 4

    Oslo og Viken

    +3.60

    5.80

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -26.80

    4.10

  6. 6

    Nord-Norge

    -28.60

    4.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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.

European comparison in Norway

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.

Recent trend

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.

Regional differences in Norway

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.

Reading within the topic

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.