Living conditions across Europe
Explore long-term trends in living conditions across Europe, including housing affordability, poverty, income inequality, life satisfaction and overcrowded housing.
Where to start
Featured living condition indicators
Start with the indicators that best show how housing costs, poverty risk and income distribution shape everyday life across European countries.
Housing affordability
Compare the share of people living in households where housing costs place excessive pressure on income.
Explore housing affordability → Poverty riskPoverty rate
Track the share of people whose income is below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.
Explore poverty rate → Income distributionIncome inequality
Compare how evenly disposable income is distributed across countries using the Gini coefficient.
Explore income inequality →All topics
Living condition topics
Browse the full Living Conditions section by theme: housing pressure, financial vulnerability, income distribution and subjective wellbeing.
Housing pressure
Indicators that show how housing costs and limited living space affect households across Europe.
Income pressure and inequality
Indicators that compare poverty risk, income distribution and financial vulnerability across countries.
Quality of life
Indicators that capture how people evaluate their lives beyond income, prices and housing costs.
What do living condition indicators show?
Living condition indicators help explain how economic and social trends are experienced by households. They measure housing cost pressure, overcrowded housing, poverty risk, income inequality and subjective wellbeing.
This Living Conditions section brings together five long-term indicators: housing affordability, poverty rate, income inequality, life satisfaction and overcrowding rate.
Why living conditions matter
Living conditions show whether economic development translates into everyday wellbeing. A country can have strong economic indicators while still facing housing pressure, poverty risk, unequal income distribution or lower life satisfaction.
By comparing data across countries and years, Europe In Time helps reveal how household pressure, housing conditions and quality of life evolve across Europe over the long term.