EU 6.01
· European ranking
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No change compared with previous year
Romania: Severe Material Deprivation
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
16.80% of people
EU 6.01 · +10.8 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 · 8 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+61.90
27.20
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2+14.29
19.20
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3+3.57
17.40
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4+1.79
17.10
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5+0.00
16.80
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6-11.31
14.90
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7-23.21
12.90
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8-61.90
6.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Romania
In Romania, Severe deprivation stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 16.8% versus 6.0% in 2025, a large gap of 10.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 25.30% in 2020 to 16.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 17.20% in 2024 to 16.80% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
Regional differences in Romania
In Romania, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (27.2%) and Vest the lowest (6.4%), a gap of 20.8 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Romania, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.