EU 8.02
· European ranking
10 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Serbia: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
9.30% of people
EU 8.02 · +1.3 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 · 4 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+37.63
12.80
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2+10.75
10.30
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3-1.08
9.20
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4-46.24
5.00
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Serbia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Serbia
In Serbia, Cannot keep home warm is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 9.3% versus 8.0% in 2025, with a gap of 1.3 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 10.20% in 2020 to 9.30% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 9.30% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
Regional differences in Serbia
In Serbia, Cannot keep home warm shows noticeable regional variation. Across 4 comparable regions, Vojvodina records the highest value (12.8%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (5%), a gap of 7.8 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.