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Portugal: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes

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

Portugal

Latest value

· 2025

15.60% of people

EU 8.02 · +7.6 pp vs Europe

European ranking

6 / 30

Down 1 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

10.7M

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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· 2025 · 9 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1

    Região Autónoma dos Açores

    +37.18

    21.40

  2. 2

    Oeste e Vale do Tejo

    +32.05

    20.60

  3. 3

    Região Autónoma da Madeira

    +26.28

    19.70

  4. 4

    Norte

    +10.90

    17.30

  5. 5

    Centro (PT)

    -8.97

    14.20

  6. 6

    Península de Setúbal

    -9.62

    14.10

  7. 7

    Grande Lisboa

    -10.90

    13.90

  8. 8

    Algarve

    -32.05

    10.60

  9. 9

    Alentejo

    -50.00

    7.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Portugal 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. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Portugal

In Portugal, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 15.6% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 7.6 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Portugal, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 17.50% in 2020 to 15.60% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 15.70% in 2024, so the improvement continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Portugal

In Portugal, Cannot keep home warm shows noticeable regional variation. Across 9 comparable regions, Região Autónoma dos Açores records the highest value (21.4%) and Alentejo the lowest (7.8%), a gap of 13.6 percentage points.

Reading within the topic

In Portugal, 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.