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According to Eurostat, in 2025, 27.5 percent of the EU’s population aged 16 or older were unable to afford one week of annual holidays away from home. This share increased by 0.5 percentage points (pp) compared with 2024, but it is significantly lower (by 7.7 pp) than a decade ago, in 2015.
The highest proportions of people unable to afford a week’s annual holiday were recorded in Romania (61.4 percent), Greece (46.6 percent), and Bulgaria and Hungary (both 39.1 percent).
By contrast, 10.6 percent of people in Luxembourg, 12.4 percent in Sweden and 12.8 percent in the Netherlands reported being unable to afford a one-week holiday away from home in 2025.
