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Serbia: Housing Space per Person

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

Latest value

· 2025

1.10 Rooms per person

EU 1.64 · -0.5 pp vs Europe

European ranking

28 / 30

No change compared with previous year

Population

6.6M

Country population · 2025

What this indicator measures

Measures the average number of rooms available in a household relative to the number of people living there, using Eurostat rules on which habitable spaces count as rooms.

Higher values generally represent a more favorable situation.

Data source: Eurostat Average number of rooms per person ilc_lvho04d

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· 2025 · 4 regions

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Internal regions

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

  1. 1
    +0.00

    1.10

  2. 1
    +0.00

    1.10

  3. 1
    +0.00

    1.10

  4. 1
    +0.00

    1.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Average number of rooms per person, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. The regional distribution is comparatively even.

European comparison in Serbia

In Serbia, Rooms per person stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 1.1 rooms per person versus 1.6 rooms per person in 2025, a large gap of 0.5 rooms per person.

Recent trend

In Serbia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 1.0 in 2020 to 1.1 in 2025. The latest value changes little from 1.1 in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.

Regional pattern in Serbia

In Serbia, Rooms per person shows a flat regional distribution across 4 comparable regions: all share the same value (1.1 rooms per person), so there is no internal gap.

Reading within the topic

In Serbia, the evidence for Quality of Life & Household Conditions 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.