One person household by age and sex

Source: UNECE Statistical Database, compiled from national official sources.

Definition: A one person household consists of a person living alone in a separate housing unit or who occupies, as a lodger, a separate room (or rooms) of a housing unit but does not join with any of the other occupants of the housing unit to form part of a multi-person household.

General note: Data is limited to persons living in private households. Data come from population censuses, micro-censuses and household sample surveys, unless otherwise specified.

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Country: Albania

1990: data refer to 1989.

Country: Austria

Break in methodlogy (2004): Change in data collection procedure.

Country: Azerbaijan

Reference period (2000): Data refer to 1999.

Country: Belarus

Reference period (2000): Data refer to 1999.

Country: Belgium

Change in definition (2003 - 2013): Data for married couples include married same sex couples.

Country: Belgium

Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1981

Country: Belgium

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991

Country: Bulgaria

Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1985

Country: Bulgaria

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1992

Country: Bulgaria

Reference period (2010): Data refer to 2011

Country: Canada

Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1981

Country: Canada

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991

Country: Canada

Reference period (1995): Data refer to 1996

Country: Croatia

Change in definition (1980 - 1990): Data refer to population with permanent residence irrespective of actual residence and duration.

Country: Croatia

Change in definition (2001 - 2011): Data refer to usual resident population.

Country: Croatia

Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1981

Country: Croatia

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991

Country: Cyprus

Change in definition (1980 - 2011): Age group 0-29 refers to 15-24; age group 30-64 refers to 25-64.

Country: Cyprus

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1992

Country: Cyprus

Territorial change (1980 - 2011): Data cover only government controlled area.

Country: Czechia

Change in definition (1995 - 2013): Age group 0-29 refers to 15-29.

Country: Estonia

Break in methodlogy (2008): Change from Household Budget Survey to EU-SILC

Country: France

Additional information (1990 - 2010): Data cover Metropolitan France and overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, French Guiana)

Country: France

Break in methodlogy (2006 - 2010): The census is based on annual data collection, successively surveying all the municipal territories over a five-year period.

Country: France

Reference period (2000): Data refer to 1999.

Country: Georgia

Territorial change (2000 onward): Data do not cover Abkhaz AR and Ossetia.

Country: Georgia

Break in series (2014): data for 2014 are from the Population Census, for other years are from the Integrated Household Survey

Country: Germany

Break in methodlogy (1980): From 1980 to 2004, data refer to one reporting week

Country: Germany

Break in methodlogy (2005): From 2005, annual avarage figures

Country: Germany

Territorial change (1980 - 1990): Data refer to the former territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Country: Israel

- Data refer to all households except those in kibbutzim, institutions, students’ dormitories and persons living outside localities (Bedouins in the South).
- Data refer to persons aged 15+ living in one person households.
- As of 2012, estimates from the monthly labour force survey.
- As of 2001 data is based on revised weighting groups.

Country: Kyrgyzstan

Reference period (2000): Data refer to 1999

Country: Latvia

Change in definition (2011): In 2011 Census in Latvia the housekeeping concept of household was used instead of the household-dwelling concept used in the previous 2000 Census.

Country: Luxembourg

Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1981

Country: Luxembourg

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991

Country: Norway

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Country: Poland

1980, 1990: data refer to 1978, 1988.

Country: Portugal

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991

Country: Romania

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1992

Country: Serbia

Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1981

Country: Serbia

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991. With provisional data for Bujanovac and Presevo.

Country: Serbia

Territorial change (1980): Data refer to the whole territory of the Republic of Serbia

Country: Serbia

Territorial change (1990 - 2011): Data do not cover Kosovo and Metohija.

Country: Slovakia

Additional information (1980): Detailed data about one person-households from the 1980 census are not available.

Country: Slovenia

Change in definition (1990): Data refer to de jure population.

Country: Slovenia

Change in definition (2002): Data refer to de facto population.

Country: Slovenia

Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991

Country: Spain

Additional information: For 2011 all data are rounded to the closest integer multiple of 5. From 2013 all data are rounded to the closest integer multiple of 100.

Country: Switzerland

Additional information (1980 - 2000): Data are based on traditional census (full field enumeration)

Country: Switzerland

Break in methodlogy (2010 - 2011): Data are based on sample survey of the resident permanent population 15 +

Country: Turkiye

Additional information (2002 - 2007): The variable of "type of household" was asked directly to the respondants.

Country: Turkiye

Additional information (2008 - 2012): The variable of "type of household" was calculated at the offiice by using the variable named "relationship to the household head".

Country: Ukraine

Territorial change (2000 - 2013): Territorial sample excluded localities (and the population living in them) which were radioactively contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster.

Country: United Kingdom

- Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1981 census.
- Reference period (1990): Data refer to 1991 census.
- Territorial change (1980 - 1990): Data cover only Great Britain.
- Territorial change (2000 - onwards): Data cover Great Britain and Northern Ireland.