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In order to get a more precise picture of poverty in the EU, the material deprivation rate describes poverty in more absolute terms.
17% of the population of EU27 were lacking at least three of nine basic items (like capacity to heat properly one's home, to have a meal with meat or equivalent every two days, to possess a washing machine … etc).
The highest levels were registered in Bulgaria (51%), Romania (50%), Hungary (37%) and Latvia (35%), and the lowest in Luxembourg (4%), the Netherlands and Sweden (both 5%). These figures are issued by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Union. 

The report "Combating poverty and social exclusion: a statistical portrait of the European Union 2010" presents a broad range of statistical concepts and indicators from social statistics across the 27 Member States, as well as providing information about candidate and EFTA countries. 

E' possibile scaricare il report in pdf dal sito: http://www.2010againstpoverty.eu/