European ranking
9 / 23
Up 2 positions compared with previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
5.20% of people
EU 6.01 · -0.8 pp vs Europe
European ranking
9 / 23
Up 2 positions compared with previous year
Recent trend
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58.9M
Country population · 2025
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
· 2025 · 21 regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
14.80
10.00
9.40
9.30
6.40
5.30
4.50
4.40
4.00
3.90
3.70
2.10
2.00
1.80
1.70
1.50
1.20
1.10
0.80
0.70
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Italy performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, although the difference is relatively small. 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.
In Italy, Severe deprivation is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 5.2% versus 6.0% in 2025, a gap of 0.8 percentage points.
In Italy, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 6.20% in 2020 to 5.20% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.60% in 2024 to 5.20% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
In Italy, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 21 comparable regions, Calabria records the highest value (14.8%) and Provincia Autonoma di Trento the lowest (0%), a gap of 14.8 percentage points.
In Italy, 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. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.