{"id":196762,"date":"2025-12-22T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:18:09","slug":"16-9-of-people-in-eu-lived-in-overcrowded-households-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196762\/","title":{"rendered":"16.9% of people in EU lived in overcrowded households &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, 16.9% of people in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> lived in <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Overcrowding_rate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overcrowded households<\/a>, a slight decrease from 18.1% in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">More than 30% of people in 5 EU countries lived in overcrowded households. Romania reported the highest share (40.7%), followed by Latvia (39.3%), Bulgaria (33.8%), Poland (33.7%) and Croatia (31.7%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In contrast, the lowest overcrowding rates were recorded in Cyprus (2.4%), Malta (4.4%) and the Netherlands (4.6%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/ilc_lvho05a\/default\/table?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ilc_lvho05a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, 16.9% of people in the EU lived in overcrowded households, a slight decrease from 18.1% in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,6172,219,62225,111,139,69,8957],"class_list":["post-196762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-lcs","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-population-and-social-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}