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Slovakia: Inability to keep home adequately warm

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

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

Country overview

Slovakia

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

Eurostat indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm

Latest value

8.10 Percent of people

European ranking

12 / 30

No change from the previous year

Compared with Europe

+0.1 puntos

Slovakia is 0.1 points above the European average.

EU: 8.02

Affected population

≈ 0.44 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 8.10 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

    Východné Slovensko

    +74.10

    14.10

  2. 2

    Západné Slovensko

    -17.30

    6.70

  3. 3

    Stredné Slovensko

    -25.90

    6.00

  4. 4

    Bratislavský kraj

    -70.40

    2.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Slovakia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Slovakia

In Slovakia, Cannot keep home warm is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 8.1% versus 8.0% in 2025, a gap of 0.1 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Slovakia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 5.70% in 2020 to 8.10% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 8.30% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.

Regional differences in Slovakia

In Slovakia, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 4 comparable regions, Eastern Slovakia records the highest value (14.1%) and Bratislava Region the lowest (2.4%), a gap of 11.7 percentage points.

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.