Home heating problems Germany 2023

In 2023, over eight percent of the German population could not heat their homes properly due to financial reasons. This was another increase compared to the previous year and over double the share than in 2021. It is also the highest figure recorded during the timeline at hand. Heating cost started rising in 2020, the year the COVID-19 pandemic officially began, and continued to increase in 2022, which saw the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, and subsequently rising energy costs.

Share of the population in Germany who cannot heat their homes properly due to financial reasons from 2009 to 2023

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Release date

April 2024

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

2009 to 2023

Supplementary notes

¹ Destatis makes the following note:
From 2020 onwards two types of results were available: initial and final results. Figures for 2020 and 2021 are final results, figures for 2022 are initial results. The report "Leben in Europa" ("Life in Europe", EU-SILC) was integrated in the microcensus as a sub-sample in 2020. It is not possible to compare figures for 2020 to those from previous years due to changing from a voluntary survey to one partially liable to reporting, and a new sample composition (break in the time series).
Since 2020, around 40,000 households in Germany were surveyed for EU-SILC (around 14,000 until 2019). Households are surveyed during four consecutive years, which allows for a longitudinal evaluation of the results.

² The evaluation of adequate heating depends on the assessment from the respondents.

Older figures were partially retrieved from respective earlier reports.

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