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Norway: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

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

Country: Norway Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion Year: 2025

Country overview

Norway

Current reading for Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Latest value

16.10 Percent of people

European ranking

26 / 30

Compared with Europe

-3.9 puntos

Norway is 3.9 points below the European average.

EU: 20.04

Affected population

≈ 0.90 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 16.10 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 20.40 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Nord-Norge

    +25.50

    20.20

  2. 2

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +17.40

    18.90

  3. 3

    Innlandet

    +16.80

    18.80

  4. 4

    Trøndelag

    +6.20

    17.10

  5. 5

    Oslo og Viken

    -5.00

    15.30

  6. 6

    Vestlandet

    -18.00

    13.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, 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 Norway

In Norway, Poverty or exclusion is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 16.1% versus 20.4% in 2025, with a gap of 4.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 16.40% in 2020 to 16.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 15.70% in 2024 to 16.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, regional values for Poverty or exclusion are relatively close. Across 6 comparable regions, Nord-Norge records the highest value (20.2%) and Vestlandet the lowest (13.2%), a gap of 7 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. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.