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Spain: Severe material and social deprivation rate

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

Country overview

Spain

Current reading for Severe material and social deprivation rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

8.10 Percent of people

European ranking

6 / 23

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+2.1 puntos

Spain is 2.1 points above the European average.

EU: 6.04

Affected population

≈ 3.98 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 8.10 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

    Ciudad de Melilla

    +45.70

    11.80

  2. 2

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    +35.80

    11.00

  3. 3

    Andalucía

    +34.60

    10.90

  4. 4

    Castilla-La Mancha

    +21.00

    9.80

  5. 5

    Región de Murcia

    +18.50

    9.60

  6. 6

    Canarias

    +14.80

    9.30

  7. 7

    Cataluña

    +9.90

    8.90

  8. 8

    Comunidad de Madrid

    +3.70

    8.40

  9. 9

    Galicia

    -12.30

    7.10

  10. 10

    Comunitat Valenciana

    -14.80

    6.90

  11. 11

    Principado de Asturias

    -17.30

    6.70

  12. 12

    Castilla y León

    -17.30

    6.70

  13. 13

    Aragón

    -19.80

    6.50

  14. 14

    Extremadura

    -22.20

    6.30

  15. 15

    Cantabria

    -38.30

    5.00

  16. 16

    Comunidad Foral de Navarra

    -40.70

    4.80

  17. 17

    La Rioja

    -46.90

    4.30

  18. 18

    Illes Balears

    -55.60

    3.60

  19. 19

    País Vasco

    -63.00

    3.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Spain performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed 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, Severe deprivation is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.1% versus 6.0% in 2025, with a gap of 2.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Spain, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 8.50% in 2020 to 8.10% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 8.30% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Regional differences in Spain

In Spain, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Melilla records the highest value (11.8%) and País Vasco the lowest (3%), a gap of 8.8 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. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.