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Spain: Population Facing Severe Deprivation Increases From 7.4% to 8.1% over a Decade, While the European Average Drops to 6.3%

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The Corner The Spanish economy is growing, yes, but so is poverty: Being unable to afford a one-week annual holiday away from home, keep the home adequately warm, or replace damaged furniture are indicators of severe material and social deprivation affecting 8.1% of the population in Spain—a figure that has climbed over the last decade from 7.4% in 2015. This was highlighted by Funcas, the Savings Banks Foundation, in its analysis of...

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Funcas warns that economic growth hardly reduces the population in a situation of deprivation. The most affected, families with minor children. The least, those over 65 years of age. More information: The purchasing power of the Spaniards only improves 1,700 euros with Sánchez

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The population with severe deficiencies increases from 7.4 per cent to 8.1 per cent in a decade, while the European average falls to 6.3 per cent. Households with children suffer more than twice as much deprivation as those over 65 years of age.

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The last years of economic growth and employment "only have reduced the relative weight of the population with the greatest deficiencies", criticizes Funcas. The rate of severe material and social deprivation doubled between 2015 and 2025, from 3.5% to 8.1%.

·Madrid, Spain
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A report by Funcas reveals that Spain is the fifth country in the EU with the most severe material and social deprivation

Economic growth and employment in recent years have hardly reduced the relative weight of the population with the greatest deficiencies in Spain, that is to say, the one that suffers the most economic difficulties in its life, being worse the situation of households with children under 16 years of age.As Funcas points out in his last note [...] The entry Economic growth and employment hardly reduces the weight of the population with severe defic…

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Forbes España broke the news on Monday, October 26, 2026.
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