European ranking
3 / 34
No change from the previous year
Montenegro: Arrears on housing or utility bills
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Montenegro
Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
Latest value
30.60 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
+18.2 puntos
Montenegro is 18.2 points above the European average.
EU: 12.36
Affected population
≈ 0.19 million people affected
Year: 2022
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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
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At a glance
Montenegro performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Montenegro
In Montenegro, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 30.6% versus 12.4% in 2022, a large gap of 18.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Montenegro, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 35.00% in 2017 to 30.60% in 2022. The latest step, from 31.80% in 2021 to 30.60% in 2022, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Montenegro, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.