EU 8.02
· European ranking
2 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Greece: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
18.10% of people
EU 8.02 · +10.1 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 · 13 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+67.96
30.40
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2+42.54
25.80
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3+22.10
22.10
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4+17.13
21.20
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5+16.57
21.10
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6-3.87
17.40
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7-12.71
15.80
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8-17.13
15.00
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9-21.55
14.20
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10-32.04
12.30
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11-32.60
12.20
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12-37.57
11.30
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13-40.33
10.80
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Greece performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Greece
In Greece, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 18.1% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 10.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Greece, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 17.10% in 2020 to 18.10% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 19.00% in 2024 to 18.10% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Regional differences in Greece
In Greece, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 13 comparable regions, Dytiki Ellada records the highest value (30.4%) and Thessalia the lowest (10.8%), a gap of 19.6 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Greece, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.