{"id":444172,"date":"2026-02-02T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/02\/02\/freddo-inverno-il-9-per-cento-degli-europei-non-puo-permettersi-di-scaldare-la-casa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:53:07","slug":"cold-winter-9-2-per-cent-of-europeans-struggled-to-heat-their-homes-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/cold-winter-9-2-per-cent-of-europeans-struggled-to-heat-their-homes-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold winter: 9.2 per cent of Europeans struggled to heat their homes in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – 9.2 per cent of the European Union’s population<\/strong> was unable to keep their homes adequately warm, a figure that is 1.4 percentage points higher<\/strong> than the previous year. These are the estimates reported by Eurostat<\/a>, the statistical office of the European Union. Italy, with 8.6 per cent, is 0.6 points<\/strong> below the European average<\/strong>, down 0.9 <\/strong>points from<\/span> 2023.\n<\/p>\n

The highest levels of difficulty in heating homes are found in <\/span>Bulgaria and Greece<\/strong>, both at <\/span>19.0 per cent<\/strong>, followed by <\/span>Lithuania (18.0 per cent)<\/strong> and <\/span>Spain (17.5 per cent)<\/strong>.<\/span> At the opposite end of the scale are Finland (2.7 per cent)<\/strong>, Poland and Slovenia (both at 3.3 per cent)<\/strong>, and Estonia and Luxembourg (both at 3.6 per cent)<\/strong>.\n<\/p>\n

Portugal<\/strong> is the country that has seen the most significant annual improvement, with a 5.1 percentage-point reduction<\/strong> in the proportion of the population experiencing difficulties heating their homes, from 20.8 per cent in 2023 to 15.7 per cent in 2024<\/strong>. Conversely, Malta<\/strong> is the country that showed a worsening<\/strong> compared to 2023, rising from 6.8 to 7.8 per cent<\/strong>.<\/span> In the Netherlands, on the other hand, the situation remained unchanged from the previous year, 7.1 per cent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking beyond the EU, Switzerland<\/strong> has the lowest proportion of people struggling to heat their homes, at 0.7 per cent<\/strong>, up 0.2 percentage points<\/strong> from<\/span> 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The highest percentages were observed in Bulgaria and Greece (both at 19 per cent), followed by Lithuania (18 per cent) and Spain (17.5 per cent). In contrast, Finland (2.7 per cent), Poland and Slovenia (both 3.3 per cent), and Estonia and Luxembourg (both 3.6 per cent) recorded the lowest rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":444143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30800],"tags":[31257,29215,25866,28631,31425,30249],"class_list":["post-444172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-case-en","tag-energy-en","tag-poverty-energy-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-heating-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444173,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444172\/revisions\/444173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}