European ranking
17 / 30
Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year
Portugal: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Portugal
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
12.70 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
-9.6 puntos
Portugal is 9.6 points below the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 1.37 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Portugal performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Portugal
In Portugal, Overcrowding stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 12.7% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 5.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Portugal, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 9.00% in 2020 to 12.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 11.20% in 2024 to 12.70% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
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. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.