EU 10.25
· European ranking
4 / 31
No change compared with previous year
Serbia: Housing & Utility Bill Arrears
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2024
17.00% of people
EU 10.25 · +6.8 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in households with arrears on mortgage or rent payments, utility bills, or hire-purchase instalments.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Arrears on housing or utility bills ILC_MDES05
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2024 · 4 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+18.24
20.10
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2+11.18
18.90
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3-5.88
16.00
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4-25.88
12.60
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Arrears on housing or utility bills, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Serbia
In Serbia, Arrears on bills stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 17.0% versus 10.2% in 2024, a large gap of 6.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 27.60% in 2019 to 17.00% in 2024. The latest step, from 17.90% in 2023 to 17.00% in 2024, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
Regional differences in Serbia
In Serbia, regional values for Arrears on bills are relatively close. Across 4 comparable regions, Vojvodina records the highest value (20.1%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (12.6%), a gap of 7.5 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Serbia, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.