# EU countries by overcrowding rate, 2025

All 27 values come from Eurostat, European Commission for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `overcrowding_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Share of the population living in a dwelling with fewer rooms than the EU standard for the household: one room for the household, one per couple, one per single person aged 18 or over, one per pair of children of the same sex aged 12 to 17, one per single child aged 12 to 17 not in such a pair, and one per pair of children under 12 (EU-SILC).
- Source: Eurostat, European Commission, Overcrowding rate, total population (ilc_lvho05a) (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_lvho05a/default/table)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/eurostat
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Eurostat. Overcrowding rate, total population (ilc_lvho05a). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ilc_lvho05a/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/overcrowding-rate/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Romania | 40.4 |
| 2 | Latvia | 38.9 |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 32.5 |
| 4 | Croatia | 31.8 |
| 5 | Poland | 30.9 |
| 6 | Greece | 28.3 |
| 7 | Lithuania | 27.8 |
| 7 | Slovakia | 27.8 |
| 9 | Italy | 24.3 |
| 10 | Estonia | 17.9 |
| 11 | Czechia | 16.7 |
| 12 | Sweden | 15.7 |
| 13 | Hungary | 14.6 |
| 14 | Austria | 14.2 |
| 15 | Portugal | 12.7 |
| 16 | Germany | 11.7 |
| 17 | France | 10.8 |
| 18 | Slovenia | 10.5 |
| 19 | Denmark | 9.9 |
| 20 | Finland | 9.5 |
| 20 | Spain | 9.5 |
| 22 | Luxembourg | 8.8 |
| 23 | Belgium | 6.6 |
| 24 | Ireland | 5.4 |
| 25 | Malta | 4.7 |
| 26 | Netherlands | 4.1 |
| 27 | Cyprus | 2.2 |