Severely materially deprived persons

% and 1000 persons

The collection "material deprivation" covers indicators relating to economic strain, durables, housing and environment of the dwelling. Severely materially deprived persons have living conditions severely constrained by a lack of resources, they experience at least 4 out of 9 following deprivations items: cannot afford i) to pay rent or utility bills, ii) keep home adequately warm, iii) face unexpected expenses, iv) eat meat, fish or a protein equivalent every second day, v) a week holiday away from home, vi) a car, vii) a washing machine, viii) a colour TV, or ix) a telephone.

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1000 persons
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	..	..	51729 ^(s)	47908 ^(s)	44374	41437	39763 ^(s)	40919	43524 ^(s)
Belgium	460	495	673	672	602	595	555	628	615
Bulgaria	..	..	..	4451	4426	3151	3184	3459	3277
Czech Republic	..	..	1190	980	750	696	635	644	641
Denmark	107	157	171	169	175	107	124	145	146
Germany	..	..	3733	4138	3947	4442	4360	3672	4323
Estonia	..	126	166	94	75	65	83	119	115
Ireland	223	195	213	205	195	245	274	336	..
Greece	1789	1500	1365	1236	1238	1213	1198	1269	1667
Spain	..	1796	1473	1490	1329	1150	1582	1814	1777
France	..	3536	3120	2946	2824	3253	3372	3530	3211
Italy	..	3991	3762	3696	4039	4494	4211	4173	6790
Cyprus	..	..	90	96	103	69	75	77	90
Latvia	..	..	865	688	555	425	489	609	682
Lithuania	..	..	1110	856	558	414	502	648	598
Luxembourg	8	4	8	5	4	3	5	3	6
Hungary	..	..	2272	2077	1971	1771	2009	2129	2278
Malta	..	..	22	15	17	16	19	23	26
Netherlands	..	..	403	370	279	252	237	366	407
Austria	264	277	248	293	269	524	395	356	325
Poland	..	..	12752	10445	8415	6680	5625	5331	4885
Portugal	..	1032	979	958	1015	1029	965	958	881
Romania	..	..	..	..	7879	7023	6817	6643	6286
Slovenia	..	..	100	102	100	130	121	119	122
Slovakia	..	..	1189	980	739	636	601	621	571
Finland	..	194	195	172	185	181	148	150	170
Sweden	..	269	216	192	197	132	144	125	112
United Kingdom	..	..	3083	2704	2491	2739	2034 ^(u)	2972	3137
Iceland	..	7	8	6	6	3	3	5	6
Norway	144	123	162	111	108	92	105	98	111
Switzerland	..	..	..	..	..	162	156	126	78
Croatia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	612	625
Turkey	..	..	..	45660	..	..	..	..	..
Percentage of total population
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
EU (27 countries)	..	..	10.7 ^(s)	9.8 ^(s)	9.1	8.4	8.1 ^(s)	8.3	8.8 ^(s)
Belgium	4.5	4.7	6.5	6.4	5.7	5.6	5.2	5.9	5.7
Bulgaria	..	..	..	57.7	57.6	41.2	41.9	45.7	43.6
Czech Republic	..	..	11.8	9.6	7.4	6.8	6.1	6.2	6.1
Denmark	2.0	2.9	3.2	3.1	3.3	2.0	2.3	2.7	2.6
Germany	..	..	4.6	5.1	4.8	5.5	5.4	4.5	5.3
Estonia	..	9.4	12.4	7.0	5.6	4.9	6.2	9.0	8.7
Ireland	5.6	4.8	5.1	4.8	4.5	5.5	6.1	7.5	..
Greece	16.9	14.1	12.8	11.5	11.5	11.2	11.0	11.6	15.2
Spain	..	4.3	3.4	3.4	3.0	2.5	3.5	4.0	3.9
France	..	6.1	5.3	5.0	4.7	5.4	5.6	5.8	5.2
Italy	..	6.9	6.4	6.3	6.8	7.5	7.0	6.9	11.2
Cyprus	..	..	12.2	12.6	13.3	8.8	9.5	9.6	10.7
Latvia	..	..	38.9	30.6	24.9	19.0	21.9	27.4	30.9
Lithuania	..	..	32.6	25.3	16.6	12.3	15.1	19.5	18.5
Luxembourg	1.9	0.8	1.8	1.1	0.8	0.7	1.1	0.5	1.2
Hungary	..	..	22.9	20.9	19.9	17.9	20.3	21.6	23.1
Malta	..	..	5.5	3.7	4.2	4.0	4.7	5.7	6.3
Netherlands	..	..	2.5	2.3	1.7	1.5	1.4	2.2	2.5
Austria	3.3	3.4	3.0	3.6	3.3	6.4	4.8	4.3	3.9
Poland	..	..	33.8	27.6	22.3	17.7	15.0	14.2	13.0
Portugal	..	9.9	9.3	9.1	9.6	9.7	9.1	9.0	8.3
Romania	..	..	..	..	36.5	32.9	32.2	31.0	29.4
Slovenia	..	..	5.1	5.1	5.1	6.7	6.1	5.9	6.1
Slovakia	..	..	22.1	18.2	13.7	11.8	11.1	11.4	10.6
Finland	..	3.8	3.8	3.3	3.6	3.5	2.8	2.8	3.2
Sweden	..	3.0	2.3	2.1	2.2	1.4	1.6	1.3	1.2
United Kingdom	..	..	5.3	4.5	4.2	4.5	3.3 ^(u)	4.8	5.1
Iceland	..	2.5	2.7	2.1	2.1	0.8	0.8	1.8	2.1
Norway	3.2	2.7	3.5	2.4	2.3	2.0	2.2	2.0	2.3
Switzerland	..	..	..	..	..	2.2	2.1	1.7	1.0
Croatia	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	14.5	14.8
Turkey	..	..	..	67.5	..	..	..	..	..

(..) - not available
(s) - Eurostat estimate
(u) - low reliability

Source: Eurostat