European ranking
10 / 30
No change from the previous year
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Current reading for Inability to keep home adequately warm in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm
Latest value
9.30 Percent of people
European ranking
10 / 30
No change from the previous year
Compared with Europe
+1.3 puntos
Serbia is 1.3 points above the European average.
EU: 8.02
Affected population
≈ 0.61 million people affected
Year: 2025
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm
Granularity: Regions
Region Vojvodine
12.80
Region Južne i Istočne Srbije
10.30
Region Šumadije i Zapadne Srbije
9.20
Beogradski region
5.00
Serbia performs less 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 points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Serbia, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 9.3% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 1.3 percentage points.
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 10.20% in 2020 to 9.30% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 9.30% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
In Serbia, Cannot keep home warm shows noticeable regional variation. Across 4 comparable regions, Vojvodina records the highest value (12.8%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (5%), a gap of 7.8 percentage points.
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.