10 EU Countries with the Highest Utility-Bill Arrears Rates, 2025
Key Findings
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Greece leads in population in households with utility-bill arrears (%) with 31.90 in 2025.
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Average population in households with utility-bill arrears (%) in 2025: 12.22 · median: 8.50.
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Gap in 2025: Greece is 5.1× larger than Hungary.
About This Dataset
10 EU Countries with the Highest Utility-Bill Arrears Rates, 2025
In Greece, 31.9% of people lived in households reporting utility-bill arrears in 2025. The ranking selects the ten highest shares among all 27 EU members from Eurostat EU-SILC ilc_mdes07. Filters are household composition Total, risk-of-poverty threshold Total and unit Percentage. Arrears concern scheduled utility payments, such as heating, electricity, gas and water, not paid on time because of financial difficulties during the preceding 12 months. Values are shares of people in affected households, not shares of bills, unpaid money, disconnections or household counts. This differs from inability to keep a home warm: a household can experience one without the other. The EU aggregate is 7.0%; nine member states exceed it. All 27 have numeric observations and no cutoff tie is omitted. Source data were updated October 20, 2026. Winter budgeting is a plausible approaching seasonal hook as of October 30, not evidence of rising search demand or a winter 2026–27 arrears forecast. The ranking describes survey point estimates, not statistically tested differences.
Analysis
Greece’s rate is 14.2 percentage points above Romania’s and 24.9 points above the EU aggregate. Hungary ranks tenth at 6.3%, below the 7.0% EU benchmark. These country percentages cannot be added into an EU total.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Eurostat — EU-SILC, ilc_mdes07, 2025; data updated October 20, 2026
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 2025 · 10 observations
- Measure
- population in households with utility-bill arrears (%)
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2025.
Data Sources & References
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