European ranking
26 / 30
Improved by 1 positions since the previous year
Belgium: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Belgium
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
6.60 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-17.7 puntos
Belgium is 17.7 points below the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 0.78 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Belgium
In Belgium, Overcrowding stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 6.6% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 12.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Belgium, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 5.80% in 2020 to 6.60% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 6.50% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.
Reading within the topic
In Belgium, 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.