Twenty-seven per cent of European Union residents aged 16 or over were unable to afford a one-week holiday away from home in 2024, Eurostat said on Monday.
The share was 1.5 percentage points lower than in 2023 and 10.6 points below the level recorded a decade earlier.
The highest proportion of people who could not afford a week-long break last year was registered in Romania (58.6%), Greece (46%) and Bulgaria (41.4%).
The lowest share was observed in Luxembourg (8.9%), Sweden (11.6%) and the Netherlands (13%).
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