In 2019, 6.9 percent of the European Union population said in an EU-wide survey conducted by Eurostat that they could not afford to heat their home sufficiently. This share peaked in 2012 (10.8 percent), and has fallen continuously in subsequent years.The situation in the European Union Member States varies. The largest share of people who said that they could not afford to keep their home adequately warm was recorded in Bulgaria (30.1 percent), followed by Lithuania (26.7 percent), Cyprus (21.0 percent), Portugal (18.9 percent), Greece (17.9 percent) and Italy (11.1 percent). In contrast, the lowest shares (2 percent) were recorded in Finland, Austria, Sweden, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Estonia and Germany, informed Eurostat.
