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Serbia: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Serbia
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
46.00 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+23.7 puntos
Serbia is 23.7 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 3.02 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Serbia
In Serbia, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 46.0% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 27.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 50.60% in 2020 to 46.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 46.60% in 2024 to 46.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Serbia, 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.