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Sweden: Severe material and social deprivation rate

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

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

Country overview

Sweden

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

Eurostat indicator: Severe material and social deprivation rate

Latest value

3.90 Percent of people

European ranking

14 / 23

Worsened by 3 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-2.1 puntos

Sweden is 2.1 points below the European average.

EU: 6.04

Affected population

≈ 0.41 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 3.90 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

    Småland med öarna

    +15.40

    4.50

  2. 2

    Östra Mellansverige

    +15.40

    4.50

  3. 3

    Norra Mellansverige

    +12.80

    4.40

  4. 4

    Stockholm

    +10.30

    4.30

  5. 5

    Sydsverige

    —

    3.90

  6. 6

    Västsverige

    -17.90

    3.20

  7. 7

    Mellersta Norrland

    -23.10

    3.00

  8. 8

    Övre Norrland

    -64.10

    1.40

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At a glance

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

European comparison in Sweden

In Sweden, Severe deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 3.9% versus 6.0% in 2025, with a gap of 2.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Sweden, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 2.00% in 2020 to 3.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 3.00% in 2024 to 3.90% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Sweden

In Sweden, Severe deprivation shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Östra Mellansverige records the highest value (4.5%) and Övre Norrland the lowest (1.4%), a gap of 3.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Sweden, 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.