European ranking
21 / 30
No change from the previous year
Denmark: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Denmark
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
9.90 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-14.5 puntos
Denmark is 14.5 points below the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 0.59 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Denmark performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Denmark
In Denmark, Overcrowding stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 9.9% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 8.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Denmark, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 9.50% in 2020 to 9.90% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 9.30% in 2024 to 9.90% in 2025, shows material deterioration and provides a clearer recent signal.
Reading within the topic
In Denmark, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.