site.btaSome 18.5% of Non-EU Citizens in Bulgaria Live in Overcrowded Households

Some 18.5% of non-EU citizens in Bulgaria lived in overcrowded households in 2023, according to Eurostat data published on Wednesday. They did not have the number of rooms appropriate for the size of the household.

At the same time, 30.4% of Bulgarian citizens living in another EU country lived in similar households.

Some 34.2% of non-EU citizens in the EU lived in overcrowded households, increase from the 32.9% in 2022. For EU nationals, the rate was 13.7% in 2023 (down from 13.9% the year before) and 20.8% for EU citizens residing in another EU country, compared with 20.5% in 2022.

The overcrowding rates for non-EU citizens were the highest in Poland (53.3%), Italy (50.7%), Sweden (48.3%) and Greece (47.5%), while the lowest were in Cyprus (4.0%), Ireland (9.1%) and Malta (10.8%).

For citizens of other EU countries, the overcrowding rates were the highest in Italy (39.9%), Greece (33.1%) and Germany (24.9%). In contrast, the lowest rates were observed in Malta (0.3%), followed by the Netherlands (4.8%) and Cyprus (5.4%). 

The highest overcrowding rates recorded for nationals were in Latvia (37.0%), Romania (35.2%) and Poland (31.5%). The lowest rates were observed in Malta (1.0%), Cyprus (1.4%) and Ireland (2.0%).