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Portugal: Arrears on housing or utility bills

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

Country: Portugal Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills Year: 2025

Country overview

Portugal

Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Latest value

5.20 Percent of people

European ranking

19 / 23

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-5.3 puntos

Portugal is 5.3 points below the European average.

EU: 10.50

Affected population

≈ 0.56 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 5.20 Percent of people Europe benchmark: 10.47 Percent of people

Internal regions

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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Alentejo

    +76.90

    9.20

  2. 2

    Área Metropolitana de Lisboa

    +61.50

    8.40

  3. 3

    Algarve

    +19.20

    6.20

  4. 4

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +5.80

    5.50

  5. 5

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    -11.50

    4.60

  6. 6

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    -15.40

    4.40

  7. 7

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    -25.00

    3.90

  8. 8

    Norte

    -30.80

    3.60

  9. 9

    Centro (PT)

    -36.50

    3.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to clearer recent change. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Portugal

In Portugal, Arrears on bills stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 5.2% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 5.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 5.40% in 2020 to 5.20% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 5.70% in 2024 to 5.20% in 2025, shows material improvement and provides a clearer recent signal.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, regional differences in Arrears on bills are pronounced. Across 9 comparable regions, Alentejo records the highest value (9.2%) and Centro (PT) the lowest (3.3%), a gap of 5.9 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Portugal, 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.