Energy poverty (unable to keep home adequately warm)
⌇ 2016: Eurostat series break (b-flag) — survey change
Peer lines share one grey on purpose: hover for countries. The compared series can differ slightly from the Dutch definition above.
Countries are ordered by value, highest first — rank 1 means the highest number, not “the best”. A year is ranked only when all 8 countries report it; missing years stay gaps. The EU average is not a country and is not ranked.
Known criticisms of this statistic
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The European Commission's Energy Poverty Advisory Hub notes the indicator is subjective — social and cultural norms strongly influence whether households report being unable to keep warm — and cites a 'denial of reality' bias by which energy-poor households under-report their own hardship.
— EU Energy Poverty Advisory Hub (European Commission) · EPAH: Is the 'inability to keep home adequately warm' indicator enough?
A peer-reviewed comparison found the self-reported heating question identifies largely different households than expenditure-based energy-poverty measures — only a small minority of households counted as energy-poor on spending grounds also report cold homes, and a share of those reporting cold homes have average or higher incomes.
— Thomson, Bouzarovski & Snell, Indoor and Built Environment, 2017 · Thomson et al.: Rethinking the measurement of energy poverty in Europe
Source & method
| Source | Eurostat ilc_mdes01 |
|---|---|
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 (Eurostat) |
| Trend method | OLS over last 8 annual observations, 5% significance (MBW convention) |
| Revisions | None recorded since 2026-07-09. Every retrieval is stored append-only; when the source restates history, the old and new values become comparable here. |
| Pipeline notes | Verified 9 Jul 2026: ilc_mdes01, hhcomp/rskpovth TOTAL, unit PC. NL effective 2005+ (2005: 3.1% -> 2025: 6.6%, energy-crisis spike from 2022). All 8 peers full span; EU27_2020 aggregate 2010+. |
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Data table — Energy poverty (Netherlands)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 6.6 |
| 2024 | 7.1 |
| 2023 | 7.1 |
| 2022 | 5.3 |
| 2021 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 2.4 |
| 2019 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 2.4 |
| 2016 | 2.6[b] |
| 2015 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 2.2 |
| 2011 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 2.3 |
| 2009 | 1.3 |
| 2008 | 1.8 |
| 2007 | 1.6 |
| 2006 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 3.1 |