European ranking
20 / 35
No change from the previous year
Iceland: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Iceland
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
11.30 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-10.3 puntos
Iceland is 10.3 points below the European average.
EU: 21.58
Affected population
≈ 0.04 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Iceland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Iceland
In Iceland, Overcrowding stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 11.3% versus 21.6% in 2020, a large gap of 10.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Iceland, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 8.30% in 2015 to 11.30% in 2020. The latest step, from 13.50% in 2019 to 11.30% in 2020, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Iceland, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.