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Germany: Inability to keep home adequately warm

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

Country overview

Germany

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

5.70 Percent of people

European ranking

16 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-2.0 puntos

Germany is 2.0 points below the European average.

EU: 7.68

Affected population

≈ 4.76 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 5.70 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

    Saarland

    +73.70

    9.90

  2. 2

    Bremen

    +64.90

    9.40

  3. 3

    Münster

    +47.40

    8.40

  4. 4

    Detmold

    +36.80

    7.80

  5. 5

    Düsseldorf

    +31.60

    7.50

  6. 6

    Köln

    +28.10

    7.30

  7. 7

    Thüringen

    +28.10

    7.30

  8. 8

    Arnsberg

    +26.30

    7.20

  9. 9

    Weser-Ems

    +19.30

    6.80

  10. 10

    Kassel

    +17.50

    6.70

  11. 11

    Brandenburg

    +17.50

    6.70

  12. 12

    Stuttgart

    +15.80

    6.60

  13. 13

    Hannover

    +14.00

    6.50

  14. 14

    Rheinhessen-Pfalz

    +12.30

    6.40

  15. 15

    Braunschweig

    +8.80

    6.20

  16. 16

    Koblenz

    +3.50

    5.90

  17. 17

    Tübingen

    +1.80

    5.80

  18. 18

    Karlsruhe

    —

    5.70

  19. 19

    Berlin

    -5.30

    5.40

  20. 20

    Darmstadt

    -7.00

    5.30

  21. 21

    Schleswig-Holstein

    -8.80

    5.20

  22. 22

    Lüneburg

    -8.80

    5.20

  23. 23

    Mittelfranken

    -8.80

    5.20

  24. 24

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    -10.50

    5.10

  25. 25

    Gießen

    -14.00

    4.90

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Germany

In Germany, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 5.7% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 2.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Germany, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 7.00% in 2020 to 5.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 6.30% in 2024 to 5.70% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Germany

In Germany, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 38 comparable regions, Saarland records the highest value (9.9%) and Oberpfalz the lowest (0.8%), a gap of 9.1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Germany, 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.