EU 8.02
· European ranking
13 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Malta: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
7.60% of people
EU 8.02 · -0.4 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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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Malta performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, Cannot keep home warm is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 7.6% versus 8.0% in 2025, a gap of 0.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 7.20% in 2020 to 7.60% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 7.80% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.