European ranking
10 / 30
Improved by 2 positions since the previous year
Slovakia: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Slovakia
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
27.80 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+2.1 puntos
Slovakia is 2.1 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 1.51 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Slovakia 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 is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Slovakia
In Slovakia, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 27.8% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 9.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Slovakia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 30.10% in 2020 to 27.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 29.90% in 2024 to 27.80% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In Slovakia, 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.