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Slovenia: Material and Social Deprivation

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

Latest value

ยท 2025

5.10% of people

EU 11.38 ยท -6.3 pp vs Europe

European ranking

28 / 30

Up 2 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

2.1M

Country population ยท 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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ยท 2025 ยท 2 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1
    +27.45

    6.50

  2. 2
    -33.33

    3.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Slovenia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Material and social deprivation rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.

European comparison in Slovenia

In Slovenia, Material deprivation stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 5.1% versus 11.4% in 2025, a large gap of 6.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Slovenia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 6.10% in 2020 to 5.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.50% in 2024 to 5.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.

Reading within the topic

In Slovenia, 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. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.