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Belgium: Inability to keep home adequately warm

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Country: Belgium Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm Year: 2025

Country overview

Belgium

Current reading for Inability to keep home adequately warm in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

4.20 Percent of people

European ranking

21 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.5 puntos

Belgium is 3.5 points below the European average.

EU: 7.68

Affected population

≈ 0.50 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 4.20 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 8.02 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Prov. Hainaut

    +150.00

    10.50

  2. 2

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    +128.60

    9.60

  3. 3

    Prov. Liège

    +121.40

    9.30

  4. 4

    Prov. Brabant Wallon

    +2.40

    4.30

  5. 5

    Prov. Namur

    -42.90

    2.40

  6. 6

    Prov. Vlaams-Brabant

    -42.90

    2.40

  7. 7

    Prov. Luxembourg (BE)

    -52.40

    2.00

  8. 8

    Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen

    -59.50

    1.70

  9. 9

    Prov. Limburg (BE)

    -66.70

    1.40

  10. 10

    Prov. West-Vlaanderen

    -69.00

    1.30

  11. 11

    Prov. Antwerpen

    -90.50

    0.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Belgium

In Belgium, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.2% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Belgium, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.20% in 2020 to 4.20% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.80% in 2024 to 4.20% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Belgium

In Belgium, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Prov. Hainaut records the highest value (10.5%) and Prov. Antwerpen the lowest (0.4%), a gap of 10.1 percentage points.

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. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.