Overcrowding

In 2023, young people across the EU left their parental home on average at the age of 26.3 years. 🏡

Highest average age, 30 years or above, was recorded in:
🇭🇷Croatia (31.8 years)

Lowest average age, under 23 years old, in:
🇫🇮Finland (21.4 years)

In 2023, the average age at which young people in the European Union left their parents' home was 26.3 years, slightly lower than the 26.4 years recorded the previous year, according to Eurostat.

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A little over 41 percent of Bulgarians live in overcrowded dwellings, according to the latest data from the European statistical office Eurostat. This means that they do not have sufficient number of rooms for the size of their household.

The UN's special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Fabian Salvioli, said on Wednesday that measures to protect against COVID-19 in overcrowded jails should not lead to amnesties or pardons being granted to people convicted of serious violations of human rights, crimes against humanity, genocide or war crimes.

In the European Union (EU), 17.1% of the population were living in overcrowded households in 2018, meaning they did not have enough rooms compared to the size of the household. Although merrier, overcrowded households can feel even smaller with kids playing in the same room as parents trying to telework during the coronavirus lockdown.

In the European Union (EU), 35% of non-EU citizens were living in overcrowded households in 2018, meaning they did not have the number of rooms appropriate to the size of the household. By contrast, this rate was 17% for nationals and 20% for foreign EU citizens (i.e. EU citizens residing in another EU country), Eurostat reported.

The percentage of overcrowding of housing in Bulgaria in urban and rural areas is very high compared to the average for the EU-28 countries. In terms of urban areas and by overcrowding of housing, Bulgaria is second only to Romania among EU countries, according to data from Eurostat's analysis of the housing conditions of European citizens in 2017.

About 62% of young Bulgarians in the 15-29 age group, or nearly two-thirds of the younger generation in Bulgaria, live in overcrowded housing conditions, according to data from Eurostat's analysis of housing conditions in EU countries in 2017

About 41 percent of Bulgarians, or 4 out of 10 Bulgarians, live in overcrowded housing, according to Eurostat's analysis of the housing stock in the EU in 2017. The average overcrowding in the EU is about 17 percent, according to European Statistics .