EU 6.01
· European ranking
6 / 23
No change compared with previous year
Spain: Severe Material Deprivation
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
8.10% of people
EU 6.01 · +2.1 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 · 19 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+45.68
11.80
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2+35.80
11.00
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3+34.57
10.90
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4+20.99
9.80
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5+18.52
9.60
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6+14.81
9.30
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7+9.88
8.90
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8+3.70
8.40
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9-12.35
7.10
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10-14.81
6.90
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11-17.28
6.70
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11-17.28
6.70
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13-19.75
6.50
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14-22.22
6.30
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15-38.27
5.00
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16-40.74
4.80
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17-46.91
4.30
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18-55.56
3.60
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19-62.96
3.00
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Spain performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Severe material and social deprivation rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Spain
In Spain, Severe deprivation is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.1% versus 6.0% in 2025, with a gap of 2.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Spain, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 8.50% in 2020 to 8.10% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 8.30% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.
Regional differences in Spain
In Spain, regional differences in Severe deprivation are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Melilla records the highest value (11.8%) and País Vasco the lowest (3%), a gap of 8.8 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Spain, 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. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.