European ranking
4 / 29
Worsened by 2 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
15.40 Percent of people
European ranking
4 / 29
Worsened by 2 positions since the previous year
Compared with Europe
+3.5 puntos
Spain is 3.5 points above the European average.
EU: 11.85
Affected population
≈ 7.57 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
Ciudad de Ceuta
24.90
Ciudad de Melilla
21.70
Andalucía
20.90
Canarias
20.00
Región de Murcia
19.10
Castilla-La Mancha
18.60
Cataluña
16.20
Comunitat Valenciana
14.20
Principado de Asturias
13.80
Comunidad de Madrid
13.40
Galicia
13.20
Extremadura
12.90
Cantabria
12.10
Castilla y León
11.90
Aragón
10.70
La Rioja
10.20
Comunidad Foral de Navarra
8.90
País Vasco
8.20
Illes Balears
7.30
Spain performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Spain, Material deprivation is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 15.4% versus 11.4% in 2025, with a gap of 4.0 percentage points.
In Spain, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 15.40% in 2020 to 15.40% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 16.00% in 2024 to 15.40% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
In Spain, regional differences in Material deprivation are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Ceuta records the highest value (24.9%) and Illes Balears the lowest (7.3%), a gap of 17.6 percentage points.
In Spain, Quality of Life & Household Conditions shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.