{"id":611541,"date":"2026-07-30T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/611541\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:24:17","slug":"27-5-of-europeans-could-not-afford-a-week-long-holiday-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/611541\/","title":{"rendered":"27.5% of Europeans could not afford a week-long holiday &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2025, 27.5% of the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a>\u2019s population aged 16 or older were unable to afford 1 week of annual holidays away from home. This share increased by 0.5 <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Percentage_point\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">percentage points<\/a> (pp) compared with 2024, but it is significantly lower (by 7.7 pp) than a decade ago, in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The highest proportions of people unable to afford a week\u2019s annual holiday were recorded in Romania (61.4%), Greece (46.6%) and Bulgaria and Hungary (both 39.1%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">By contrast, 10.6% of people in Luxembourg, 12.4% in Sweden and 12.8% in the Netherlands reported being unable to afford a one-week holiday away from home in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/ilc_mdes02__custom_22146571\/default\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ilc_mdes02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, 27.5% of the EU\u2019s population aged 16 or older were unable to afford 1 week of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,5720,179,18,19,17,13313,5723],"class_list":["post-611541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lcs","tag-population-and-social-conditions"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117008680016668877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}