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Sweden: At-risk-of-poverty rate

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

Country: Sweden Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate Year: 2025

Country overview

Sweden

Current reading for At-risk-of-poverty rate in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Latest value

15.60 Percent of people

European ranking

16 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+0.3 puntos

Sweden is 0.3 points above the European average.

EU: 15.32

Affected population

≈ 1.65 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 15.60 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 16.23 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: At-risk-of-poverty rate

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Sydsverige

    +14.10

    17.80

  2. 2

    Östra Mellansverige

    +11.50

    17.40

  3. 3

    Norra Mellansverige

    +10.30

    17.20

  4. 4

    Mellersta Norrland

    +7.70

    16.80

  5. 5

    Västsverige

    -5.80

    14.70

  6. 6

    Småland med öarna

    -7.10

    14.50

  7. 7

    Stockholm

    -10.90

    13.90

  8. 8

    Övre Norrland

    -13.50

    13.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Sweden performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, although the difference is relatively small. 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 Sweden

In Sweden, Poverty risk is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 15.6% versus 16.2% in 2025, a gap of 0.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Sweden, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 16.10% in 2020 to 15.60% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 14.80% in 2024 to 15.60% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Regional differences in Sweden

In Sweden, regional values for Poverty risk are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Sydsverige records the highest value (17.8%) and Övre Norrland the lowest (13.5%), a gap of 4.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Sweden, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.