Rent burden: share of disposable income (annual)

Annual share of disposable household income absorbed by rent for the occupied dwelling (mean share across the total population), for EU member states, EFTA countries, EU candidate countries and EU/euro-area aggregates. Eurostat dataset ilc_mded02 ('Share of rent related to occupied dwelling in disposable household income, by type of household and income group'), filtered to freq=A, hhcomp=TOTAL ('Total' population), rskpovth=TOTAL (all income groups) and unit=PC ('Percentage'), from EU-SILC. Each row is one (year, country). This is the continuous rent-share measure behind the binary housing cost overburden rate (share of the population above the 40% threshold): two countries can share the same overburden rate while their typical rent shares differ. Method: Eurostat compiles EU-SILC microdata transmitted by the member states; rent refers to the occupied dwelling; non-EU/EFTA/candidate countries are dropped (same licensing rule as the other Eurostat datasets). Units: percent of disposable household income. Caveats: EU-SILC income data refer to the year before the survey year; the 2021 EU-SILC methodological revision breaks comparability with pre-2021 values for some countries; the UK and Kosovo (XK) are dropped by the connector's commercial-use geo rule; the EU, EU27_2020, EU28, EU27_2007, EA, EA18, EA19, EA20 and EA21 aggregates are included as published. Coverage: 44 geographic units after the geo rule, 2003 to the present, annual. Provenance: Eurostat keyless JSON-stat API, free reuse with attribution (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) - please cite Eurostat. Primary key: (year, country_code). Join keys: country_code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3), year. Cadence: refreshed yearly; Eurostat updates EU-SILC indicators in autumn. Sample use: filter country_code='DEU' to track Germany's rent burden over time.