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Denmark: Inability to keep home adequately warm

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

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

Country overview

Denmark

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

4.50 Percent of people

European ranking

18 / 30

Worsened by 4 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-3.2 puntos

Denmark is 3.2 points below the European average.

EU: 7.68

Affected population

≈ 0.27 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 4.50 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

    Sjælland

    +17.80

    5.30

  2. 2

    Midtjylland

    —

    4.50

  3. 3

    Hovedstaden

    -2.20

    4.40

  4. 4

    Syddanmark

    -4.40

    4.30

  5. 5

    Nordjylland

    -17.80

    3.70

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Denmark

In Denmark, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.5% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.5 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Denmark, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 3.00% in 2020 to 4.50% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 4.40% in 2024, so the previous deterioration continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Denmark

In Denmark, regional values for Cannot keep home warm are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Sjælland records the highest value (5.3%) and Nordjylland the lowest (3.7%), a gap of 1.6 percentage points.

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.