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Spain: Material and social deprivation rate

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

Country overview

Spain

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

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 15.40 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

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    +61.70

    24.90

  2. 2

    Ciudad de Melilla

    +40.90

    21.70

  3. 3

    Andalucía

    +35.70

    20.90

  4. 4

    Canarias

    +29.90

    20.00

  5. 5

    Región de Murcia

    +24.00

    19.10

  6. 6

    Castilla-La Mancha

    +20.80

    18.60

  7. 7

    Cataluña

    +5.20

    16.20

  8. 8

    Comunitat Valenciana

    -7.80

    14.20

  9. 9

    Principado de Asturias

    -10.40

    13.80

  10. 10

    Comunidad de Madrid

    -13.00

    13.40

  11. 11

    Galicia

    -14.30

    13.20

  12. 12

    Extremadura

    -16.20

    12.90

  13. 13

    Cantabria

    -21.40

    12.10

  14. 14

    Castilla y León

    -22.70

    11.90

  15. 15

    Aragón

    -30.50

    10.70

  16. 16

    La Rioja

    -33.80

    10.20

  17. 17

    Comunidad Foral de Navarra

    -42.20

    8.90

  18. 18

    País Vasco

    -46.80

    8.20

  19. 19

    Illes Balears

    -52.60

    7.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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.

European comparison in Spain

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.

Recent trend

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.

Regional differences in Spain

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.

Reading within the topic

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.