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Norway: Material and Social Deprivation

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

Norway

Latest value

· 2025

5.60% of people

EU 11.38 · -5.8 pp vs Europe

European ranking

27 / 30

Down 4 positions compared with previous year

Population

5.6M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people who, because they cannot afford them, lack at least 5 of 13 specified material or social items considered relevant to an adequate standard of living.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Material and social deprivation rate ilc_mdsd09

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Regional map

· 2025 · 6 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Innlandet

    +48.21

    8.30

  2. 2

    Trøndelag

    +23.21

    6.90

  3. 2

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +23.21

    6.90

  4. 4

    Oslo og Viken

    +3.57

    5.80

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -26.79

    4.10

  6. 6

    Nord-Norge

    -28.57

    4.00

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, Material deprivation stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 5.6% versus 11.4% in 2025, a large gap of 5.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 4.30% in 2020 to 5.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 6.70% in 2024 to 5.60% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, Material deprivation shows noticeable regional variation. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (8.3%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (4%), a gap of 4.3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, 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.