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Italy: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Italy
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
24.30 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-0.5 puntos
Italy is 0.5 points below the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 14.32 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Italy performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Italy
In Italy, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 24.3% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 5.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Italy, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 26.10% in 2020 to 24.30% in 2025. The latest step, from 23.90% in 2024 to 24.30% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Italy, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.