Overcrowding rate by poverty status - population without single-person households - EU-SILC survey

In 2021, Portugal's overcrowding rate by poverty status increased by 18.4% compared to 2020, reaching 11.6.

Portugal accounts for 62.7% of the EU-27 total of 18.5.

Portugal ranks 15th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has grown by 4.5% (from 11.1 in 2016).

Source: Eurostat dataset tessi178, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.