European ranking
8 / 30
Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year
Greece: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Greece
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
28.30 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+13.0 puntos
Greece is 13.0 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Greece performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Greece
In Greece, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 28.3% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 9.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Greece, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 29.00% in 2020 to 28.30% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 27.00% in 2024 to 28.30% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Greece, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.