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Estonia: Overcrowding rate
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Country overview
Estonia
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
17.90 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+5.0 puntos
Estonia is 5.0 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 0.25 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Estonia performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Estonia
In Estonia, Overcrowding is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 17.9% versus 18.6% in 2025, a gap of 0.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Estonia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 12.70% in 2020 to 17.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 18.40% in 2024 to 17.90% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Estonia, 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.