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Turkey: Severe Material Deprivation

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

Latest value

ยท 2025

12.00% of people

EU 6.01 ยท +6.0 pp vs Europe

European ranking

4 / 23

No change compared with previous year

Population

85.7M

Country population ยท 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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At a glance

Turkey 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.

European comparison in Turkey

In Turkey, Severe deprivation stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 12.0% versus 6.0% in 2025, a large gap of 6.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Turkey, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 16.70% in 2020 to 12.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 13.40% in 2024 to 12.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Reading within the topic

In Turkey, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.