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Netherlands: Severe Material Deprivation

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

Netherlands

Latest value

· 2025

2.60% of people

EU 6.01 · -3.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

17 / 23

Down 2 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

18.0M

Country population · 2025

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

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Regional map

· 2025 · 12 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Overijssel

    +23.08

    3.20

  2. 1

    Noord-Brabant

    +23.08

    3.20

  3. 3

    Gelderland

    +19.23

    3.10

  4. 4

    Zuid-Holland Zuid

    +15.38

    3.00

  5. 5

    Noord-Holland

    +11.54

    2.90

  6. 6

    Zuid-Holland Centraal

    +7.69

    2.80

  7. 7

    Friesland (NL)

    -15.38

    2.20

  8. 8

    Limburg (NL)

    -42.31

    1.50

  9. 9

    Flevoland

    -50.00

    1.30

  10. 10

    Groningen

    -73.08

    0.70

  11. 10

    Drenthe

    -73.08

    0.70

  12. 12

    Zeeland

    -84.62

    0.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Netherlands performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. 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 Netherlands

In Netherlands, Severe deprivation is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 2.6% versus 6.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 2.20% in 2020 to 2.60% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 3.10% in 2024 to 2.60% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Netherlands

In Netherlands, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 12 comparable regions, Overijssel records the highest value (3.2%) and Zeeland the lowest (0.4%), a gap of 2.8 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Netherlands, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.