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Poland: Inability to keep home adequately warm

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

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

Country overview

Poland

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

3.20 Percent of people

European ranking

27 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

-4.5 puntos

Poland is 4.5 points below the European average.

EU: 7.68

Affected population

≈ 1.17 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 3.20 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

    Świętokrzyskie

    +65.60

    5.30

  2. 2

    Lubuskie

    +59.40

    5.10

  3. 3

    Podkarpackie

    +59.40

    5.10

  4. 4

    Kujawsko-Pomorskie

    +50.00

    4.80

  5. 5

    Łódzkie

    +34.40

    4.30

  6. 6

    Dolnośląskie

    +31.30

    4.20

  7. 7

    Lubelskie

    +28.10

    4.10

  8. 8

    Podlaskie

    +18.80

    3.80

  9. 9

    Wielkopolskie

    +15.60

    3.70

  10. 10

    Zachodniopomorskie

    -3.10

    3.10

  11. 11

    Warmińsko-Mazurskie

    -6.30

    3.00

  12. 12

    Śląskie

    -9.40

    2.90

  13. 13

    Mazowiecki regionalny

    -12.50

    2.80

  14. 14

    Opolskie

    -21.90

    2.50

  15. 15

    Małopolskie

    -21.90

    2.50

  16. 16

    Pomorskie

    -31.30

    2.20

  17. 17

    Warszawski stołeczny

    -43.80

    1.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

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

European comparison in Poland

In Poland, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 3.2% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 4.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Poland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 3.20% in 2020 to 3.20% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 3.30% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.

Regional differences in Poland

In Poland, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 17 comparable regions, Świętokrzyskie records the highest value (5.3%) and Warszawski stołeczny the lowest (1.8%), a gap of 3.5 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Poland, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.