EU 1.64
· European ranking
1 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Malta: Housing Space per Person
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
2.20 Rooms per person
EU 1.64 · +0.6 pp vs Europe
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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More context on this indicator
At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, Rooms per person stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 2.2 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, a large gap of 0.6 rooms per person.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 2.3 in 2020 to 2.2 in 2025. The latest value changes little from 2.2 in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.