EU 8.02
· European ranking
21 / 30
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Belgium: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
4.20% of people
EU 8.02 · -3.8 pp vs Europe
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
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 11 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+150.00
10.50
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2+128.57
9.60
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3+121.43
9.30
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4+2.38
4.30
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5-42.86
2.40
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5-42.86
2.40
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7-52.38
2.00
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8-59.52
1.70
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9-66.67
1.40
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10-69.05
1.30
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11-90.48
0.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Belgium performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, 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. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Belgium
In Belgium, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.2% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Belgium, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.20% in 2020 to 4.20% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 4.80% in 2024 to 4.20% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Regional differences in Belgium
In Belgium, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Prov. Hainaut records the highest value (10.5%) and Prov. Antwerpen the lowest (0.4%), a gap of 10.1 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Belgium, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.