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Where in Europe are households biggest?

Albania comes top at 3.1 people and Lithuania bottom at 1.8 people. The EU-27 figure is 2.3 people.

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Mean number of people per private household, from the EU survey on income and living conditions (EU-SILC).

These are survey estimates, so each comes with sampling error. Countries close together in the table may not really differ; treat near neighbours as roughly equal rather than as a strict ranking.

Most figures are for 2025; a few countries' latest figure is from 2024, shown in the table.

CountrymeanYear
Albania3.1 people2025
Slovakia3.1 people2025
Türkiye3.1 people2025
North Macedonia3.0 people2024
Montenegro2.8 people2024
Poland2.8 people2025
Ireland2.7 people2025
Croatia2.6 people2025
Serbia2.6 people2025
Cyprus2.5 people2025
Spain2.5 people2025
Romania2.5 people2025
Greece2.4 people2025
Malta2.4 people2025
Portugal2.4 people2025
Slovenia2.4 people2025
Czechia2.3 people2025
Hungary2.3 people2025
Luxembourg2.3 people2025
Austria2.2 people2025
Belgium2.2 people2025
Bulgaria2.2 people2025
Switzerland2.2 people2024
Italy2.2 people2025
Latvia2.2 people2025
Estonia2.1 people2025
France2.1 people2025
Netherlands2.1 people2025
Germany2.0 people2025
Norway2.0 people2025
Sweden2.0 people2025
Denmark1.9 people2025
Finland1.9 people2025
Lithuania1.8 people2025p

p = provisional figure, which may be revised.

How do we know?

Source: Eurostat (European Commission), Eurostat ilc_lvph01: Average household size. Source: Eurostat (ilc_lvph01), Average household size. Reuse authorised with acknowledgement. Eurostat copyright and licence policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; CC BY 4.0 for Commission content).

What kind of number: An estimate from a survey or statistical model.

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