European ranking
14 / 30
Improved by 1 positions since the previous year
Sweden: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Sweden
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
15.70 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+18.9 puntos
Sweden is 18.9 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 1.66 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Sweden performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Sweden
In Sweden, Overcrowding is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 15.7% versus 18.6% in 2025, with a gap of 2.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Sweden, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 15.60% in 2020 to 15.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 16.70% in 2024 to 15.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Sweden, 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.