Temporary employees share
Employees aged 15 to 64 with a temporary job or a fixed-term contract, as a percentage of all employees aged 15 to 64. A job is temporary when employer and employee agree that it ends on a set date, on completion of a task or on the return of a worker who is being replaced.
Counts employees only; self-employed people are excluded. 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
- Temporary employees share in the European Union (27) was 12.6% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- The Netherlands had the highest temporary employees share of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 25.5%, and Lithuania the lowest, at 1.8%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2009 to 2025.
Rankings
EU countries by temporary employees share, 2025
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Finland
- Denmark
- Slovakia
- Greece
- Slovenia
- Austria
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest temporary employees share? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"temporary_employees_share","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=temporary_employees_share&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)