Eurostat: Young people increasingly reluctant to leave their parental home

In 2022, young people living in the European Union left their parental home at an average age of 26.4 years. However, rates vary considerably between countries.

According to Eurostat, highest the average age of “chicks leaving the nest”, which is 30 years and older, was recorded in Croatia (33.4 years), Slovakia (30.8), Greece (30.7), Bulgaria and Spain (both 30.3), at Malta (30.1) and Italy (30.0). Against, lowest (under 23 years old) was recorded in Finland (21.3 years), Sweden (21.4), Denmark (21.7) and Estonia (22.7).

In 10 years, the average age of young people leaving their parental home has increased in 14 countries EU, especially in Croatia (+1.8 years), Greece (+1.7) and Spain (+1.6). In 2012, the lowest average in the EU was in Sweden, where young people left home at the age of 19.9, but in 10 years the average has increased by 1.5 years.

https://rua.gr/news/obschestvo/31269-v-kakom-vozraste-greki-pokidayut-svoyu-detskuyu-komnatu.html

At the EU level, between 2012 and 2022, the average age changed little, with the lowest being 26.2 years (2019) and the highest being 26.5 years (2012, 2014, 2020 and 2021).

In the EU, on average, men left their father’s home later than women: in 2022, the European average for men was 27.3 years and for women 25.4 years.

This difference was observed in all countries, i.e. young women left their parental home earlier than young men on average.

Thus, according to experts, men left the parental home on average after 30 years in 9 EU countries (Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Spain, Italy, Malta, Slovenia and Portugal) and women only in one country: Croatia.

The largest gender gap is recorded in Romania: young men “leave their children’s room in their parents’ house” at 29.9 years old, and women at 25.4 years (a gender gap of 4.5 years). It is followed by Bulgaria (a gap of 4.1 years), where men leave their native land at 32.3 years, and women at 28.2 years.

On the contrary, in Luxembourg the difference is 5 months, Sweden 6. In Denmark and Malta (in both countries 7 months) the smallest differences were recorded between young men and women who decided to no longer sit on their parents’ necks and finally move out.

Source link