Portugal among the five EU countries with the least daylight at home
ÇAbout 5.9% of people in the European Union reported not having enough daylight in their home, last year. This means that “the house looked too dark and was seen as a problem for the household”, according to Eurostat. Around here, 6.8% of citizens admitted the same. A drop compared to the results recorded in 2019, when 8.2% of residents did not have enough daylight at home.
According to the same data, Portugal was the fifth country in the EU where 6.8% of people reported not having enough daylight at home, in 2020.
Right next door, more than 10% of people living in Spain considered their home too dark (10.6%), with this largest share registered among the EU Member States. France (9.5%), Malta (9.4%) and Hungary (7.7%) followed.
Conversely, the lowest values were registered in Slovakia (2.6%), Norway and Cyprus (both with 2.8%), Czech Republic (3.1%) and Estonia (3.4%).
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Eurostat also emphasizes that access to daylight in homes helps improve health and well-being, while it can help improve energy efficiency, necessary the need for artificial lighting.
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