EU 8.02
· European ranking
1 / 30
Up 5 positions compared with previous year
Turkey: Energy Poverty / Cold Homes
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
19.50% of people
EU 8.02 · +11.5 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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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Turkey performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Inability to keep home adequately warm, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Cannot keep home warm stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 19.5% versus 8.0% in 2025, a large gap of 11.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 20.30% in 2020 to 19.50% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 15.10% in 2024 to 19.50% in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Turkey, the evidence for Housing & Energy Stress leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.