In 2024, 27.0% of the EU’s population aged 16 or older were unable to afford 1 week of annual holidays away from home. This share dropped by 1.5 percentage points compared with 2023, and is significantly lower (by 10.6 percentage points) than a decade ago, in 2014, according to Eurostat data published July 14.
The highest proportions of people unable to afford a week’s annual holiday were recorded in Romania (58.6%), Greece (46.0%) and Bulgaria (41.4%).
By contrast, 8.9% of people in Luxembourg, 11.6% in Sweden and 13.0% in the Netherlands reported being unable to afford 1-week holiday away from home in 2024.
Latvians were in the middle, with 29% saying they could not afford a week-long vacation.
Source dataset: ilc_mdes02
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