EU 8.02
· European ranking
5 / 30
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Spain: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
15.90% of people
EU 8.02 · +7.9 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 · 19 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+60.38
25.50
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2+21.38
19.30
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3+20.13
19.10
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3+20.13
19.10
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5+19.50
19.00
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6+18.87
18.90
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7+17.61
18.70
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8+5.66
16.80
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9+2.52
16.30
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10-2.52
15.50
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11-6.29
14.90
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12-8.18
14.60
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13-18.24
13.00
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14-19.50
12.80
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15-25.79
11.80
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16-29.56
11.20
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17-30.82
11.00
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18-44.03
8.90
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19-45.28
8.70
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Spain performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Spain
In Spain, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 15.9% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 7.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Spain, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 10.90% in 2020 to 15.90% in 2025. The latest step, from 17.50% in 2024 to 15.90% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.
Regional differences in Spain
In Spain, regional differences in Cannot keep home warm are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Ceuta records the highest value (25.5%) and País Vasco the lowest (8.7%), a gap of 16.8 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Spain, Housing & Energy Stress shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.