Severe material and social deprivation rate by sex

In 2025, Sweden's severe material and social deprivation rate by sex increased by 30.0% compared to 2024, reaching 7.80.

Sweden accounts for 61.9% of the EU-27 total of 12.6.

Sweden ranks 17th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 95.0% (from 4.00 in 2020).

Source: Eurostat dataset tepsr_lm420, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.