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Finland: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

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

Finland

Latest value

· 2025

2.60% of people

EU 8.02 · -5.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

29 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

5.6M

Country population · 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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· 2025 · 3 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Helsinki-Uusimaa

    +26.92

    3.30

  2. 2

    Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi

    -7.69

    2.40

  3. 3

    Etelä-Suomi

    -11.54

    2.30

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Finland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Finland

In Finland, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 2.6% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 5.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Finland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 1.80% in 2020 to 2.60% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 2.70% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.

Regional differences in Finland

In Finland, regional values for Cannot keep home warm are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Helsinki-Uusimaa records the highest value (3.3%) and Etelä-Suomi the lowest (2.3%), a gap of 1 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Finland, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.