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Social indicators: Material deprivation 2014


  • Statistical Series
  • 03. July 2015
  • Vol 100, Issue 24
  • ISSN: 1670-4509


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The proportion of people living in materially deprived households fell between 2013 and 2014, from 6,5% to 5,5%. In 2013 the material deprivation rate in Iceland was the fifth lowest in Europe. The proportion of disabled and long-term ill stands out as having a high rate of material deprivation, or 23% in 2014, although the unemployed are also well above average with 12,5%.
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