People living in households with very low work intensity
People aged under 65 living in households where the working-age members worked 20% or less of their combined work-time potential during the previous year, as a percentage of all people aged under 65. Working-age members are those aged 18 to 64, excluding students aged 18 to 24, people who are retired or receive a pension, and inactive people aged 60 to 64 in households whose main income is pensions.
One of the three components of the at risk of poverty or social exclusion rate, in the definition used since 2021 and back-calculated to 2015. From the EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC). Income refers to the previous calendar year in most countries. Eurostat flags series breaks; they are stored as status break.
Key facts
- People living in households with very low work intensity in the European Union (27) was 7.9% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission.
- Lithuania had the highest people living in households with very low work intensity of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 11.4%, and Slovenia the lowest, at 3.8%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.
- Published for 28 places, with figures from 2015 to 2025.
Rankings
EU countries by people living in households with very low work intensity, 2025
Places with data
World, EU and euro area
Countries
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Poland
- Romania
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- Czechia
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Finland
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Latvia
- Lithuania
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest people living in households with very low work intensity? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"very_low_work_intensity_share","level":"country","within":"European Union (27)"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=very_low_work_intensity_share&level=country&within=European%20Union%20(27)