In the EU in 2021, the severe material and social deprivation rate among young people (aged 15-29 years) was 6.1%, while the severe material and social deprivation rate among the total population (all people living in private households aged 0 and up) was slightly higher at 6.3%.
Among the EU countries, the highest proportion of young people who were severely materially and socially deprived in 2021 was recorded in Romania (23.1%), followed by Bulgaria (18.7%) and Greece (14.2%). On the other hand, the proportion was less than 3% in 11 of the 26 EU members with available data: Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, Cyprus, Czechia, Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Finland, Austria, and Estonia.
Source dataset: ilc_mdsd11
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20230404-1
