EU 9.50
· European ranking
10 / 34
No change compared with previous year
Montenegro: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2024
12.10% of people
EU 9.50 · +2.6 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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At a glance
Montenegro performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Montenegro
In Montenegro, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 12.1% versus 9.5% in 2024, with a gap of 2.6 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Montenegro, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 10.30% in 2019 to 12.10% in 2024. The latest step, from 13.30% in 2023 to 12.10% in 2024, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Montenegro, 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.