The European countries where youth emancipation worsens the most (and one is Spa

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Access to housing by young people is one of the main real estate, political and social challenges in Spain. As the years go by, the rate of people under 35 years of age who cannot leave the family home due to lack of economic resources increases.


According to the community statistics office Eurostat, 46% of young people between 25 and 34 years old lived with their parents in 2021, compared to 37.2% registered 10 years earlier.

"In Spain, if we cross-reference the data from the Tax Agency with those from the Emancipation Observatory, we observe that only in that age group - between 25 and 34 years - there Phone Lead are 1,047,000 people who, working, still live with their parents , which gives an idea of ​​the magnitude of the problem,” explains the Association of Real Estate Developers of Madrid (Asprima) in a report, where it reviews where the situation is in Spain with respect to the main European countries.

And the answer is that the age of emancipation in the domestic case is one of the latest and that it has registered one of the worst evolutions in the last decade. In general terms, the Nordic countries have the fewest young workers living with their parents, while the Central European powers are in the middle of the table. In southern Europe, the situation is more critical.



In 2021, according to Eurostat figures, Greece is the country that leads the ranking with 60.7% of the population between 25 and 34 years old living in the family home. They are followed by Portugal, with 56.4%; and Italy, with 53.7%. The fourth worst data on the list is that of Spain , with 46% (equivalent to 1,047 million young people). All of them far exceed the European Union average of 30.5%.

The rest of the countries analyzed have much lower rates. In Belgium, for example, it is limited to 20.9%, while in France young people residing with their parents make up 15.3% of the total; and in Germany, 12.1%. Denmark, Sweden and Finland record the best figures of the main EU countries, with a rate of less than 5%.

If we look at the evolution over the last decade, the reading is once again the same: southern Europe is where the percentage of young people who have not emancipated has increased the most . In this case, however, Portugal is the most notable country, registering an increase of almost 12 points between 2012 and 2021; followed by Greece (9.1 points), Spain (8.8 points) and Italy (7.7 points).

In the EU as a whole, the rate has barely increased by 0.4 points, while in Sweden and Germany it has even fallen. The first continental power is the one that has had the most favorable evolution, with a reduction of 5.2 integers.