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Norway: Severe Material Deprivation

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

Norway

Latest value

· 2025

2.60% of people

EU 6.01 · -3.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

17 / 23

Up 1 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 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 · 6 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Innlandet

    +76.92

    4.60

  2. 2

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    +15.38

    3.00

  3. 3

    Trøndelag

    +0.00

    2.60

  4. 4

    Oslo og Viken

    -3.85

    2.50

  5. 5

    Vestlandet

    -19.23

    2.10

  6. 6

    Nord-Norge

    -26.92

    1.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, 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 Norway, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 2.40% in 2020 to 2.60% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 2.80% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (4.6%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (1.9%), a gap of 2.7 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. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.