Part-time employment share
Employed people aged 15 to 64 who work part time, as a percentage of all employed people aged 15 to 64. Whether a job is part time is based on the person's own answer in the labour force survey.
From the EU labour force survey. Eurostat flags series breaks (most in 2021, under the new framework regulation for social statistics); they are stored as status break.
Key facts
- Part-time employment share in the European Union (27) was 17.7% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- The Netherlands had the highest part-time employment share of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 42.2%, and Bulgaria the lowest, at 1.7%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2009 to 2025.
Rankings
EU countries by part-time employment share, 2025
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Ireland
- Estonia
- Slovakia
- Croatia
- Slovenia
- Hungary
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest part-time employment share? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"part_time_employment_share","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=part_time_employment_share&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)