Sunday 19 May 2019

Men and their parents

Every fourth man in the EU is in no hurry to leave their parents

According to data for 2017, in the European Union more than a third (35.3%) of men aged 25 to 34 still live with their parents. For comparison, the same indicator for women in the same age category is 21.7%, that is, one fifth.

On average, one out of every four young people (28.5%) still lives in their parental home. In EU Member States, their number ranged from less than 10% in Denmark (3.2%), Finland (4.7%) and Sweden (6%) to more than half in Croatia (59.7%), Slovakia (57, 0%) and Greece (56.3%), reports Eurostat. By the way, almost 70% of young Italians live with their parents.

The data show that young people leave the parental home at the age of about 26 years. However, this age varies significantly among alliance member states. First of all, they leave their parents in three northern states: Sweden (18.5 years), Denmark (21.1) and Finland (22), as well as in Luxembourg (20.1). Slightly older - in Estonia (22.2), Germany, the Netherlands and France (23.7), as well as in the UK (24.7).

At the opposite end of the scale are young people in Croatia and Slovakia who stayed the longest in the parental home. They leave their parents at the age of 31.8 and 30.9 years, respectively. Also at the end of the list are men in Malta (30.7 years), in Italy (30.1), Bulgaria (29.6), Spain (29.5), Greece (29.3) and Portugal (28.9)

In almost all EU countries, girls tend to leave their parental home before men. The exception is Sweden (18.5 years). The most notable differences between the sexes were recorded in Romania (25.6 years for women versus 30.5 for men), Bulgaria (27.5 versus 31.7), Croatia (30 versus 33.6), Greece (28 versus 30, 6), Hungary (25.8 against 28.3), Poland (26.3 against 28.8), Slovakia (29.7 against 32.1) and Lithuania (24.5 against 26.9).

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