EU 8.02
· European ranking
12 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Slovakia: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
8.10% of people
EU 8.02 · +0.1 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+74.07
14.10
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2-17.28
6.70
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3-25.93
6.00
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4-70.37
2.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Slovakia performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Slovakia
In Slovakia, Cannot keep home warm is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 8.1% versus 8.0% in 2025, a gap of 0.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Slovakia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 5.70% in 2020 to 8.10% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 8.30% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous deterioration.
Regional differences in Slovakia
In Slovakia, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 4 comparable regions, Eastern Slovakia records the highest value (14.1%) and Bratislava Region the lowest (2.4%), a gap of 11.7 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Slovakia, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.