Progress
Stagnation or regression
Stagnation or regression

Desired direction: Decrease

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Headline data

Prevalence (%) of people who feel discriminated against (due to their age, sex, place of birth, etc.) by sex
Year Value Units
2013 5.6 %
2018 4.1 %
2023 8.8 %

Geographical Area:

Unit of Measurement:

Footnote:

Methodological sheet of the indicator available for the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country.

Available indicator

Prevalence (%) of people who feel discriminated against (due to their age, sex, place of birth, etc.) by sex
Target

16.b Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development
Goal

16- Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Definition

Percentage of people who report feeling discriminated against due to age, sex, place of birth, or other reasons
Theoretical formula \[PP_{discriminated}^{t} = \frac{P_{discriminated}^{t}}{P^{t}} \cdot 100\]

where:

$P_{discriminated}^{t} =$ population that has felt discriminated against (due to their age, sex, place of birth, etc.), in year $t$

$P^{t} =$ population in year $t$
Available disaggregations

Sex

Province
Frequency

Five-yearly
Data last updated 2025/08/19
Metadata last updated 2025/08/20

Source 1

Department of Health
Organisation Department of Health
Periodicity Five-yearly
Link to data source Health Survey

This section provides more information about the United Nations indicator or the European Union Sustainable Development Indicator, such as its rationale, international results, metadata, and other relevant statistics.

Rationale

The pledge to leave no-one behind and eliminate discrimination is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The elimination of discrimination is also enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the core international human rights treaties.

The purpose of this indicator is to measure a prevalence of discrimination based on the personal experience reported by individuals. It is considered an outcome indicator helping to measure the effectiveness of non-discriminatory laws, policy and practices for the concerned population groups.

The international human rights normative framework identifies a list of grounds that includes race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national origin, social origin, property, birth status, disability, age, nationality, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, health status, place of residence, economic and social situation, pregnancy, indigenous status, afro-descent and other status.

In practice, it will be difficult to include all potentially relevant grounds of discrimination in household survey questions. For this reason, it is recommended that data collectors identify contextually relevant and feasible lists of grounds.

Source: United Nations Statistics Division
Comparability between the available indicator and the UN indicator

The available indicator complies with United Nations metadata
Link to UN metadata

Metadata 16-b-1.pdf
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