Severe material and social deprivation in European Union
6.3% of people in the European Union were severely materially and socially deprived in 2025.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
6.3%
Change from 2024
−0.1percentage points
Severe material and social deprivation in European Union over time
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European Union
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% of population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.3% |
| 2024 | 6.4% |
| 2023 | 6.8% |
| 2022 | 6.7% |
| 2021 | 6.3% |
| 2020 | 6.7% |
| 2019 | 6.7% |
| 2018 | 7.1% |
| 2017 | 7.8% |
| 2016 | 9.0% |
| 2015 | 9.7% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.1 percentage points from 6.4% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 9.7%, the figure has changed by −3.4 percentage points.