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Portugal: Inability to keep home adequately warm

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

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

Country overview

Portugal

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

15.60 Percent of people

European ranking

6 / 30

Improved by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

+7.9 puntos

Portugal is 7.9 points above the European average.

EU: 7.68

Affected population

≈ 1.68 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 15.60 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

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +37.20

    21.40

  2. 2

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +32.10

    20.60

  3. 3

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +26.30

    19.70

  4. 4

    Norte

    +10.90

    17.30

  5. 5

    Centro (PT)

    -9.00

    14.20

  6. 6

    Alentejo

    -9.60

    14.10

  7. 7

    Área Metropolitana de Lisboa

    -10.90

    13.90

  8. 8

    Algarve

    -32.10

    10.60

  9. 9

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    -50.00

    7.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Portugal

In Portugal, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 15.6% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 7.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 17.50% in 2020 to 15.60% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 15.70% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, Cannot keep home warm shows noticeable regional variation. Across 9 comparable regions, Região Autónoma dos Açores records the highest value (21.4%) and Região Autónoma dos Açores the lowest (7.8%), a gap of 13.6 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.