Portugal is above the EU average: 33.1% of Portuguese people cannot afford a week’s holiday. Romania leads the negative ranking, with 61.4%. Luxembourg is the best performer, with 10.6%.
More than one in every four people over the age of 16 (27.5%) in the European Union did not, in 2025, have the financial capacity to pay for a week of annual holidays away from home, Eurostat indicated this Thursday.
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This percentage increased by 0.5 percentage points (p.p.) compared to 2024, but is 7.7 percentage points lower than a decade ago, in 2015 (35.2%). In Portugal, last year, one in every three people (33.1%) did not have the financial capacity for a week’s holiday away from home.
The highest proportions of people unable to afford a week of annual holidays were recorded in Romania (61.4%), Greece (46.6%), and Bulgaria and Hungary (both at 39.1%). By contrast, 10.6% of people in Luxembourg, 12.4% in Sweden and 12.8% in the Netherlands stated they did not have the financial capacity to pay for a week’s holiday away from home in 2025.
