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1 in 3 Cypriots aged 25-34 live at home; higher than EU average

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In 2017, the percentage of Cypriots aged 25-34 who lived with their parents was 33.7%, a report published by Eurostat today shows.

According to Eurostat, the European average was 28.5%. The highest percentage was in North Macedonia (61.3%) and the lowest in Denmark (3.2%). Greece had the fourth highest percentage in Europe with 56.3%. The number of people aged 25-24 who live with their parents in the UK was 14.9%.

On average, Cypriots leave home around 28 years of age.

Data shows that on average young people leave the parental household at the age of 26 years in the EU Member States. However, this age varies significantly among Member States.

Young people in Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark and Finland youngest to fly the nest

In 2017, young people left home earliest in the three northern Member States – Sweden (18.5 years), Denmark (21.1 years) and Finland (22.0 years), as well as in Luxembourg (20.1 years). Young people also tended to leave home before the age of 25 in Estonia (22.2 years), Germany, France and the Netherlands (all 23.7 years) as well as the United Kingdom (24.7 years).

In Croatia, Slovakia, Malta and Italy young people move out at around 30

At the opposite end of the scale, young adults in Croatia and Slovakia remained the longest in the parental household. They left home at an average age of 31.8 and 30.9 respectively. Young adults in Malta (30.7 years), Italy (30.1 years), Bulgaria (29.6 years), Spain (29.5 years), Greece (29.3 years) and Portugal (28.9 years) also remained with their parents for longer.

Men stay longer at home than women

In the European Union (EU), more than one third (35.3%) of males aged 25 to 34 were still living with their parents in 2017, compared with only one fifth (21.7%) of females in the same age group.

In almost all Member States, young women tended to leave the parental household earlier than men. The exception was Sweden (18.5 years for women, compared with 18.4 for men). The highest differences between the genders were registered in Romania (25.6 years for women, compared with 30.5 for men), Bulgaria (27.5 vs. 31.7), Croatia (30.0 vs. 33.6), Greece (28.0 vs. 30.6), Hungary (25.8 vs. 28.3), Poland (26.3 vs. 28.8), Slovakia (29.7 vs. 32.1) and Lithuania (24.5 vs. 26.9).

The source dataset can be found here.

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https://in-cyprus.com/young-cypriots-more-likely-to-live-with-parents-than-eu-counterparts/

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