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2 / 23
No change from the previous year
Turkey: Arrears on housing or utility bills
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Turkey
Current reading for Arrears on housing or utility bills in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
Latest value
22.00 Percent of people
Compared with Europe
+11.5 puntos
Turkey is 11.5 points above the European average.
EU: 10.47
Affected population
≈ 18.85 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Arrears on housing or utility bills
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At a glance
Turkey performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 22.0% versus 10.5% in 2025, a large gap of 11.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 29.90% in 2020 to 22.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 20.60% in 2024 to 22.00% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Turkey, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.