EU 18.63
· European ranking
1 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Serbia: Overcrowded Housing
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
46.00% of population
EU 18.63 · +27.4 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures the share of people living in a dwelling with fewer rooms than required under the Eurostat overcrowding standard. The minimum number of rooms depends on household composition and the ages of its members.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Overcrowding rate ilc_lvho05a
Explore this indicator
Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Overcrowding rate, with a large gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Serbia
In Serbia, Overcrowding stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 46.0% versus 18.6% in 2025, a large gap of 27.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 50.60% in 2020 to 46.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 46.60% in 2024 to 46.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal is weaker than the primary one.
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.