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Turkey: Overcrowding rate
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Turkey
Current reading for Overcrowding rate in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Overcrowding rate
Latest value
37.80 Percent of population
Compared with Europe
+33.2 puntos
Turkey is 33.2 points above the European average.
EU: 22.31
Affected population
≈ 32.38 million people affected
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Overcrowding rate
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At a glance
Turkey 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 points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 37.8% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 19.2 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 40.00% in 2020 to 37.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 38.20% in 2024 to 37.80% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
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.