EU 8.02
· European ranking
14 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Netherlands: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
6.60% of people
EU 8.02 · -1.4 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
Netherlands performs more 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 is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Netherlands
In Netherlands, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 6.6% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 1.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 2.40% in 2020 to 6.60% in 2025. The latest step, from 7.10% in 2024 to 6.60% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Reading within the topic
In Netherlands, Housing & Energy Stress 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.