Overcrowding rate
People living in a dwelling that does not have the minimum number of rooms for the household size, under the EU-SILC definition based on household composition and ages.
31 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.
Trend over time
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% of population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union | Germany | France | Spain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16.8% | 11.7% | 10.8% | 9.5% |
| 2024 | 16.9% | 11.5% | 10.4% | 9.1% |
| 2023 | 16.8% | 11.4% | 9.9% | 7.6% |
| 2022 | 16.8% | 11.2% | 9.2%b (break in time series) | 6.6% |
| 2021 | 17.3% | 10.6% | 9.4% | 6.4% |
| 2020 | 17.4% | 10.2%b (break in time series) | 9.6%b (break in time series) | 7.6% |
| 2019 | 17.1% | 7.8% | 7.7% | 5.9% |
| 2018 | 17.1%e (estimated) | 7.4% | 8.2% | 4.7% |
| 2017 | 17.5%e (estimated) | 7.2% | 7.7% | 5.1% |
| 2016 | 17.9%e (estimated) | 7.2% | 7.7% | 5.4% |
| 2015 | 18.1%e (estimated) | 7.0% | 7.4% | 5.5% |
| 2014 | 18.1%e (estimated) | 6.6% | 7.1% | 5.3% |
| 2013 | 18.3%e (estimated) | 6.7% | 7.4% | 5.2% |
| 2012 | 18.4%e (estimated) | 6.6% | 8.1% | 5.6% |
| 2011 | 18.4%e (estimated) | 6.7% | 8.0% | 6.6%b (break in time series) |
| 2010 | 19.1%e (estimated) | 7.1% | 9.2% | 5.0% |
| 2009 | – | 7.0% | 9.6% | 5.2% |
| 2008 | – | 7.0% | 9.7% | 5.6% |
| 2007 | – | 6.5% | 10.1% | 5.8% |
| 2006 | – | 7.6% | 8.1% | 6.5% |
| 2005 | – | 6.3% | 9.4% | 8.4%b (break in time series) |
| 2004 | – | – | 10.3% | 13.6% |
Flags: b break in time series; e estimated . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- Among the 31 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Albania (52.6%) and the lowest Cyprus (2.2%).
- Half of the countries are above 14.6% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 17 countries and fell in 13.
- The figure for the European Union was 16.8% in 2025, against 17.4% in 2020 (−0.6 percentage points).
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Source and dates
All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Albania 52.6%
- 2 Serbia 46.0%
- 3 Romania 40.4%
- 4 Latvia 38.9%
- 5 Türkiye 37.8%
- 6 Bulgaria 32.5%
- 7 Croatia 31.8%
- 8 Poland 30.9%
- 9 Greece 28.3%
- 10 Lithuania 27.8%p (provisional)
- 11 Slovakia 27.8%
- 12 Italy 24.3%
- 13 Estonia 17.9%
- 14 Czechia 16.7%
- 15 Sweden 15.7%
- 16 Hungary 14.6%
- 17 Austria 14.2%
- 18 Portugal 12.7%
- 19 Germany 11.7%
- 20 France 10.8%
- 21 Slovenia 10.5%
- 22 Denmark 9.9%
- 23 Finland 9.5%
- 24 Spain 9.5%
- 25 Luxembourg 8.8%b (break in time series)
- 26 Norway 6.8%
- 27 Belgium 6.6%
- 28 Ireland 5.4%
- 29 Malta 4.7%
- 30 Netherlands 4.1%
- 31 Cyprus 2.2%
- European Union 16.8%
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.