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Norway: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

Norway

Latest value

· 2025

1.70% of people

EU 8.02 · -6.3 pp vs Europe

European ranking

30 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Population

5.6M

Country population · 2025

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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Regional map

· 2025 · 6 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1

    Innlandet

    +88.24

    3.20

  2. 2

    Oslo og Viken

    +35.29

    2.30

  3. 3

    Vestlandet

    -11.76

    1.50

  4. 4

    Agder og Sør-Østlandet

    -23.53

    1.30

  5. 5

    Trøndelag

    -82.35

    0.30

  6. 6

    Nord-Norge

    -88.24

    0.20

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Norway performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Norway

In Norway, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 1.7% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 6.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Norway, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 0.80% in 2020 to 1.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 2.20% in 2024 to 1.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Norway

In Norway, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 6 comparable regions, Innlandet records the highest value (3.2%) and Nord-Norge the lowest (0.2%), a gap of 3 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Norway, 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.