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Norway: Severe material and social deprivation rate

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

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

Country overview

Norway

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

19 / 23

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.4 puntos

Norway is 3.4 points below the European average.

EU: 6.04

Affected population

≈ 0.15 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

    Innlandet

    +76.90

    4.60

  2. 2

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +15.40

    3.00

  3. 3

    Trøndelag

    —

    2.60

  4. 4

    Oslo og Viken

    -3.80

    2.50

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -19.20

    2.10

  6. 6

    Nord-Norge

    -26.90

    1.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, 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 Norway, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 2.40% in 2020 to 2.60% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 2.80% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (4.6%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (1.9%), a gap of 2.7 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. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.