European ranking
32 / 32
No change from the previous year
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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
0.70 Percent of people
European ranking
32 / 32
No change from the previous year
Compared with Europe
-8.8 puntos
Switzerland is 8.8 points below the European average.
EU: 9.50
Affected population
≈ 0.06 million people affected
Year: 2024
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Indicator: Inability to keep home adequately warm
Granularity: Regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
Switzerland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Switzerland, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 0.7% versus 9.5% in 2024, a large gap of 8.8 percentage points.
In Switzerland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 0.30% in 2019 to 0.70% in 2024. The latest value also changes little from 0.50% in 2023, confirming the stable reading.
In Switzerland, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 7 comparable regions, Eastern Switzerland records the highest value (1.4%) and Northwestern Switzerland the lowest (0.2%), a gap of 1.2 percentage points.
In Switzerland, 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 deterioration and warrant monitoring.