EU 6.01
· European ranking
10 / 23
Down 2 positions compared with previous year
Belgium: Severe Material Deprivation
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
4.90% of people
EU 6.01 · -1.1 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people who, because they cannot afford them, lack at least 7 of the 13 material or social items used in the Eurostat material and social deprivation framework.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Severe material and social deprivation rate TESPM030
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 11 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+124.49
11.00
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2+102.04
9.90
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3+2.04
5.00
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4-10.20
4.40
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4-10.20
4.40
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6-20.41
3.90
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7-26.53
3.60
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8-28.57
3.50
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9-63.27
1.80
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10-65.31
1.70
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11-67.35
1.60
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Belgium
In Belgium, Severe deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.9% versus 6.0% in 2025, with a gap of 1.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Belgium, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 6.70% in 2020 to 4.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 6.20% in 2024 to 4.90% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Regional differences in Belgium
In Belgium, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Prov. Hainaut records the highest value (11%) and Prov. West-Vlaanderen the lowest (1.6%), a gap of 9.4 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Belgium, 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.