EU 9.50
· European ranking
2 / 34
No change compared with previous year
North Macedonia: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2024
27.00% of people
EU 9.50 · +17.5 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
North Macedonia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in North Macedonia
In North Macedonia, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 27.0% versus 9.5% in 2024, a large gap of 17.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In North Macedonia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 33.10% in 2019 to 27.00% in 2024. The latest step, from 30.70% in 2023 to 27.00% in 2024, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Reading within the topic
In North Macedonia, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.