Albanian young people are the second in the Western Balkans to suffer from the phenomenon of living in overcrowded homes.

Statistics published by Eurostat show that almost 70% of young people between the ages of 15 and 29 do not have a separate room of their own in the houses where they live.

This percentage is much higher than the European Union average of 26%. The age group that suffers the most from the phenomenon includes those between 15 and 19 years old.

Meanwhile, for other age groups of the population, the percentage is lower at 51.8%, while the EU average stands at 17%. In the Balkans, Montenegro is ahead of us with the largest percentage, while the third place is occupied by Serbia.

But Albania shines in another indicator. The European Union also measures housing cost overburden, which determines the percentage of young people and the population as a whole that spend more than 40% of the entire family's income on housing.

In Albania, only 4.6% of young people have this cost on their shoulders, spending more than half of their income on the house, while for the population as a whole the level is 3.8%.

The EU average meanwhile is 9.7% for young people and 8.3% for the population as a whole. In this respect, the Albanians are the first in Europe for the lowest costs as well as in the Western Balkans.