Cypriots live in the most spacious houses and apartments in the entire European Union – Eurostat studied what percentage of the population of EU countries live in cramped conditions, and Cyprus got the lowest figure: only 2.2%.

Statisticians considered housing cramped if it does not meet at least one of the criteria: no separate room for each adult family member, for each couple, for two children under 12 years or two same-sex children 12 +, each of the different-sex children 12 +.

Given these baselines, the average EU housing crowding rate was 17.2 percent. The populations of Romania (45.8%), Latvia (42.2%), and Bulgaria (41.1%) were found to be the most crowded. The most spacious homes, as has already been said, have Cypriots, followed by the Irish (3.2%), the Maltese (3.7%) and the Dutch (4.8%)

Eurostat analysts projected statistics on the pandemic reality and noted that the lack of living space is felt much more acutely when adults are working at home remotely, and children do not go to school. Plus, when it is cramped, there is a greater risk of catching the “crown” from someone in your family.

Eurostat counted the number of families with “too much” space in houses and apartments. Here Cyprus was in second place – housing 70.5% of the population is too big for residents. Spacious live only in Malta (72.6%). The EU average here was 32.7%.