European ranking
6 / 23
No change from the previous year
Cyprus: Arrears on housing or utility bills
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Cyprus
Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
Latest value
12.00 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
+1.5 puntos
Cyprus is 1.5 points above the European average.
EU: 10.47
Affected population
≈ 0.12 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
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At a glance
Cyprus performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Cyprus
In Cyprus, Arrears on bills is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 12.0% versus 10.5% in 2025, with a gap of 1.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Cyprus, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 15.40% in 2020 to 12.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 12.50% in 2024 to 12.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Cyprus, 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.