EU 16.23
· European ranking
16 / 30
Up 1 positions compared with previous year
Sweden: Poverty Rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
15.60% of people
EU 16.23 · -0.6 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people whose equivalised disposable income after social transfers is below 60% of the national median. It is a relative-income measure rather than a measure of absolute poverty.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat At-risk-of-poverty rate TESPM010
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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+14.10
17.80
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2+11.54
17.40
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3+10.26
17.20
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4+7.69
16.80
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5-5.77
14.70
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6-7.05
14.50
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7-10.90
13.90
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8-13.46
13.50
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Sweden performs more favourably than the European benchmark on At-risk-of-poverty rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Sweden
In Sweden, Poverty risk is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 15.6% versus 16.2% in 2025, a gap of 0.6 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Sweden, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 16.10% in 2020 to 15.60% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 14.80% in 2024 to 15.60% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Regional differences in Sweden
In Sweden, regional values for Poverty risk are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Sydsverige records the highest value (17.8%) and Övre Norrland the lowest (13.5%), a gap of 4.3 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Sweden, the evidence for Poverty & Financial Vulnerability leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.