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Heating systems in Europe

Central heating, district heating, individual heating and energy sources used in European homes.

EUROSTAT · EU-SILC · CENSUS 2021
District heating12.6 %2023 · ilc_lvhe01
Central heating27.1 %2023 · ilc_lvhe01
Individual heating52.8 %2023 · ilc_lvhe01
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Shares come from Eurostat household survey data.

# Country Central heatingDistrict heatingIndividual heating
1 Denmark 22.6 %64.9 %12.5 %
2 Sweden 1.4 %59.5 %35.7 %
3 Lithuania 4.2 %52.7 %41.8 %
4 Estonia 23.8 %51.7 %22.8 %
5 Latvia 6.3 %50.8 %42.5 %
6 Finland 38.4 %48.5 %13.1 %
7 Czechia 57.0 %38.4 %4.5 %
8 Poland 3.1 %31.1 %64.0 %
9 Austria 56.0 %26.4 %17.0 %
10 Slovakia 44.9 %24.8 %30.2 %
11 Bulgaria 31.7 %17.4 %48.6 %
12 Germany 64.3 %13.7 %19.5 %
13 Hungary 5.5 %12.7 %81.5 %
14 Slovenia 78.7 %11.7 %9.0 %
15 Romania 23.1 %10.9 %65.2 %
16 Netherlands 2.1 %7.8 %86.7 %
17 Croatia 1.6 %6.0 %91.5 %
18 Luxembourg 69.9 %6.0 %18.5 %
19 France 14.1 %2.3 %80.0 %
20 Italy 15.3 %2.3 %76.5 %
21 Portugal 13.5 %2.3 %33.5 %
22 Spain 8.7 %0.8 %56.4 %
23 Ireland 91.2 %0.6 %7.1 %
24 Belgium 60.2 %0.5 %38.5 %
25 Greece 46.6 %0.4 %47.9 %
26 Cyprus 32.4 %0.0 %39.8 %
27 Malta 0.0 %0.0 %50.8 %
MÉTHODOLOGIE · EUROSTAT

How to read these data

This section combines Eurostat datasets with different reference years: EU-SILC for housing conditions and heating, and Census 2021 for the housing stock. EnergyBoard always displays the year next to each indicator and keeps statistical scopes separate.

Sources: Eurostat · ilc_mdes01 · ilc_lvhe01 · ilc_lvhe04 · ilc_lvhe05 · ilc_lvhe08 · ilc_enevh_01/02/03 · Census 2021.

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