Young people in Greece are slower to leave their parental home than young people in other EU countries, new Eurostat data for 2022 released today confirms.
In particular, young people in Greece leave their parental home at an average age of 30.7 years, while in the EU young people leave their parental home at an average age of 26.4 years.
According to Eurostat data, the average number of young people leaving their parents’ homes differs between EU countries.
The highest average age, 30 years and over, was recorded in Croatia (33.4 years), Slovakia (30.8), Greece (30.7), Bulgaria and Spain (both 30.3), Malta (30.1) and Italy (30.0). In contrast, the lowest average ages, all below 23 years, were recorded in Finland (21.3 years), Sweden (21.4), Denmark (21.7) and Estonia (22.7).
Over 10 years, the average age of young people leaving their parents’ homes increased in 14 EU countries, notably in Croatia (+1.8 years), Greece (+1.7) and Spain (+1.6). In 2012, the lowest EU average was in Sweden, where young people left their parents’ home at the age of 19.9, but over 10 years the average increased by 1.5 years.
At the EU level, between 2012 and 2022, the average age varied slightly, with the lowest being 26.2 years (2019) and the highest 26.5 (2012, 2014, 2020, and 2021).
In the EU, on average, men leave the parental home later than women (men at age 27.3 and women at age 25.4 in 2022). This difference was observed in all countries, i.e. young women left the parental home on average earlier than young men.
Men left their parental home, on average, after the age of 30 in 9 EU countries (Croatia, Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Greece, Slovakia, Spain, Italy, Malta, Slovenia, and Portugal), while this was the case for women in only one country: Croatia.
The largest gender gap was found in Romania, where young men left home at 29.9 years and women at 25.4 years (4.5 years difference between genders), followed by Bulgaria (4.1 years difference), with men leaving home at 32.3 years and women at 28.2 years. In contrast, Luxembourg (0.5 years difference), Sweden (0.6), Denmark, and Malta (both 0.7) recorded the smallest differences between young men and women leaving the parental home.
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