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Albania: Overcrowding rate
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Country overview
Albania
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
57.10 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+35.9 puntos
Albania is 35.9 points above the European average.
EU: 21.16
Affected population
≈ 1.35 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Albania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Albania
In Albania, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 57.1% versus 21.2% in 2023, a large gap of 35.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Albania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 62.90% in 2018 to 57.10% in 2023. The latest value changes little from 57.40% in 2022, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.
Reading within the topic
In Albania, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.