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Denmark: Housing Space per Person

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

Latest value

· 2025

1.90 Rooms per person

EU 1.64 · +0.3 pp vs Europe

European ranking

9 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

6.0M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the average number of rooms available in a household relative to the number of people living there, using Eurostat rules on which habitable spaces count as rooms.

Higher values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Average number of rooms per person ilc_lvho04d

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· 2025 · 5 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1
    +10.53

    2.10

  2. 2
    +5.26

    2.00

  3. 2
    +5.26

    2.00

  4. 2
    +5.26

    2.00

  5. 5
    -5.26

    1.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Denmark performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Denmark

In Denmark, Rooms per person is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 1.9 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, with a gap of 0.3 rooms per person.

Recent trend

In Denmark, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 1.9 in 2020 to 1.9 in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 1.9 in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Regional differences in Denmark

In Denmark, regional values for Rooms per person are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Nordjylland records the highest value (2.1 rooms per person) and Hovedstaden the lowest (1.8 rooms per person), a gap of 0.3 rooms per person.

Reading within the topic

In Denmark, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.