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Latvia: Housing Space per Person

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

Latest value

ยท 2025

1.20 Rooms per person

EU 1.64 ยท -0.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

25 / 30

Down 1 positions compared with previous year

Population

1.9M

Country population ยท 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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At a glance

Latvia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.

European comparison in Latvia

In Latvia, Rooms per person stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 1.2 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, a large gap of 0.4 rooms per person.

Recent trend

In Latvia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 1.2 in 2020 to 1.2 in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 1.2 in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Reading within the topic

In Latvia, Quality of Life & Household Conditions 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.