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Albania: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

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

Latest value

ยท 2024

33.10% of people

EU 9.50 ยท +23.6 pp vs Europe

European ranking

1 / 34

No change compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

2.4M

Country population ยท 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the share of people living in households that cannot afford to keep their home adequately warm.

Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Inability to keep home adequately warm ilc_mdes01

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At a glance

Albania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.

European comparison in Albania

In Albania, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 33.1% versus 9.5% in 2024, a large gap of 23.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Albania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 36.80% in 2019 to 33.10% in 2024. The latest step, from 33.80% in 2023 to 33.10% in 2024, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Reading within the topic

In Albania, 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.