Heat pump sales across 21 European countries rose 13% year-on-year in 2025, reaching 2.88 million, according to the latest analysis by the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).

The figure is an improvement on the 2.56 million sold in 2024 but remains down on the record 3.31 million from 2022 and 3.19 million in 2023. Similarly to last year, air-to-air heat pumps were the most commonly sold, followed by air-to-water. 

EHPA’s 2026 market report features 2025 sales data from Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland, as well as 2024 data from Ireland, Hungary and Estonia, where sales have been presumed flat year-on-year.

EHPA says the 2.9 million new heat pumps replace 2.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of liquefied natural gas (LNG), equivalent to around 24% of the EU’s imports from the Middle East.

The total heat pump stock of the 21 analyzed countries now stands at 29.3 million. EHPA’s analysis says this stock provides as much heat as the LNG carried by over 200 tankers.

“This is double the amount which arrived in the EU in 2025 from the Middle East, and around 7% of the EU’s total annual imported LNG,” EHPA’s analysis continues. “This avoided €9.7 billion in import costs in 2025.”

EHPA Director General Paul Kenny commented that every heat pump installed is another bolt in the door of European energy security.

“LNG is the most expensive energy source and comes from unreliable suppliers, and heat pumps can drastically reduce our need for it,” Kenny said. “Europeans are already turning away from fossil fuel heating as our new data shows. The EU and governments’ job is to make this as easy and affordable as possible.” 

National-level analysis in EHPA’s report highlights Germany as a market leader in 2025, with 50% market growth and a new record in terms of national space heating market share, with heat pump sales representing 50% for the first time. 

From the 18 countries that reported heat pump sales for 2025, 14 saw an increase on the year prior, with only Poland, Austria, Norway and France recording less.

Despite a year-on-year decrease, France continued to lead the way in terms of total units sold, with 528,000, followed by Italy with 423,000 units sold. These two countries have the highest number of installed heat pumps in Europe, with around 7 million in France and 5 million in Italy.

When considering sales against every 1,000 households, Lithuania saw the highest number of sales last year, with 46 sales per 1,000 households, followed by Norway, with 43.

Norway also has the highest total number of heat pumps relative to population size of the analyzed countries, with 650 heat pumps for every 1,000 households, followed by Finland with just above 540.

Earlier this year, EHPA announced residential heat pump sales increased by 10.3% across 16 European countries last year, with the total amount deployed across the analyzed countries surpassing 28 million.

This upward trajectory continued into the first quarter of this year, with residential heat pump sales up 11% across 11 countries compared to the first quarter of 2025.