EU 8.02
· European ranking
16 / 30
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Germany: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
5.70% of people
EU 8.02 · -2.3 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
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Regional map
· 2025 · 38 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+73.68
9.90
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2+64.91
9.40
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3+47.37
8.40
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4+36.84
7.80
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5+31.58
7.50
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6+28.07
7.30
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6+28.07
7.30
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8+26.32
7.20
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9+19.30
6.80
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10+17.54
6.70
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10+17.54
6.70
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12+15.79
6.60
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13+14.04
6.50
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14+12.28
6.40
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15+8.77
6.20
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16+3.51
5.90
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17+1.75
5.80
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18+0.00
5.70
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19-5.26
5.40
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20-7.02
5.30
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21-8.77
5.20
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21-8.77
5.20
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21-8.77
5.20
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24-10.53
5.10
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25-14.04
4.90
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25-14.04
4.90
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27-15.79
4.80
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28-21.05
4.50
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29-26.32
4.20
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30-28.07
4.10
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31-29.82
4.00
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32-33.33
3.80
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33-40.35
3.40
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34-43.86
3.20
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35-47.37
3.00
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36-52.63
2.70
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37-64.91
2.00
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38-85.96
0.80
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Germany performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Germany
In Germany, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 5.7% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 2.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Germany, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 7.00% in 2020 to 5.70% in 2025. The latest step, from 6.30% in 2024 to 5.70% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Regional differences in Germany
In Germany, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 38 comparable regions, Saarland records the highest value (9.9%) and Oberpfalz the lowest (0.8%), a gap of 9.1 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Germany, 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.