EU 8.02
· European ranking
7 / 30
Up 2 positions compared with previous year
Romania: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
11.90% of people
EU 8.02 · +3.9 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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Regional map
· 2025 · 8 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+46.22
17.40
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2+18.49
14.10
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3+14.29
13.60
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4-6.72
11.10
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5-9.24
10.80
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6-11.76
10.50
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7-18.49
9.70
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8-29.41
8.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Romania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Romania
In Romania, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 11.9% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 3.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Romania, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 10.00% in 2020 to 11.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 10.80% in 2024 to 11.90% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.
Regional differences in Romania
In Romania, Cannot keep home warm shows noticeable regional variation. Across 8 comparable regions, Centru records the highest value (17.4%) and Nord-Est the lowest (8.4%), a gap of 9 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Romania, 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.