EU countries by temporary employees share, 2025

The Netherlands had the highest temporary employees share of 27 EU countries in 2025, at 25.5%. Lithuania had the lowest, at 1.8%. The median was 9.5% and the figure for the European Union (27) was 12.6%. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest25.5Netherlands

Lowest1.8Lithuania

Median9.527 EU countries

European Union (27)12.6History

Map of EU countries, 2025

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%, 2025. Source: Eurostat, Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

All EU countries, 2025

%. Source: Eurostat, Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a). Retrieved 2026-10-18.

Full ranking

Rank	EU countries	2025 (%)	Change on 2024
1	Netherlands	25.5	-0.5 pts
2	Poland	15.7	+0.8 pts
3	Spain	15.4	-0.6 pts
4	France	15.2	0 pts
4	Portugal	15.2	-0.8 pts
6	Cyprus	14.6	+0.5 pts
7	Finland	14	-1.1 pts
8	Italy	13.6	-1.2 pts
9	Denmark	12.5	-0.1 pts
9	Sweden	12.5	-0.1 pts
11	Germany	11.5	+0.1 pts
12	Belgium	11	+1.3 pts
13	Slovenia	9.6	-1 pts
14	Greece	9.5	0 pts
15	Luxembourg	9.3	-0.2 pts
15	Malta	9.3	-0.3 pts
17	Croatia	8.4	-0.6 pts
18	Austria	8.3	-0.1 pts
19	Czechia	7.5	-0.1 pts
20	Ireland	7.4	+0.1 pts
21	Hungary	4.5	-0.2 pts
22	Slovakia	3.9	+0.1 pts
23	Estonia	3.4	-0.5 pts
24	Bulgaria	2.6	-0.2 pts
24	Latvia	2.6	+0.3 pts
26	Romania	1.9	+0.1 pts
27	Lithuania	1.8	+0.2 pts

Other periods

About this ranking

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.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the EU countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Eurostat. Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsi_pt_a/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-18.

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APA 7

Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a) (EU countries by temporary employees share, 2025) [Data set]. Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsi_pt_a/default/table

MLA 9

Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a), EU countries by temporary employees share, 2025. Eurostat, European Commission, 10 Sept. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsi_pt_a/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/temporary-employees-share/eu-countries. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a). EU countries by temporary employees share, 2025. Dataset. Accessed October 18, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsi_pt_a/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/temporary-employees-share/eu-countries.

Harvard

Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a), EU countries by temporary employees share, 2025 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsi_pt_a/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/temporary-employees-share/eu-countries (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  urldate = {2026-10-18},
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Which EU country has the highest temporary employees share?

The Netherlands, with 25.5% in 2025, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which EU country has the lowest temporary employees share?

Lithuania, with 1.8% in 2025.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Eurostat, European Commission, Employees with a temporary contract as a percentage of all employees, 15 to 64 years (lfsi_pt_a). Retrieved 2026-10-18.