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At risk of poverty or social exclusion: regional divide
8.1% people in households with very low work intensity
In 2023, 8.1% of people younger than 65 in the EU lived in households with very low work intensity. In these households, members of working age worked up to 20% of their total possible work hours over the previous year.
The highest shares of people from 0-64 living in households with very low work intensity were recorded in 2 French outermost regions: Guyane (41.7%) and La Réunion (22.5%). These were followed by Bremen, Germany (21.8%), Prov. Hainaut, Belgium (21.5%), and Campania (21.2%) in Italy.
Source datasets: ilc_lvhl13n and ilc_lvhl21n
By contrast, the lowest shares of people living in households with very low work intensity were recorded in Romanian region Bucureşti-Ilfov (0.7%), Austrian regions Salzburg (0.8%) and Tirol (1.1%), Bratislavský kraj (1.3%) in Slovakia and Romanian Nord-Est region (1.7%).
For more information
- Statistics Explained article on living conditions in Europe - work intensity
- Key figures on European living conditions – 2024 edition
- Thematic section on income and living conditions
- Database on income and living conditions
Methodological note
The regional data presented in this news item refer to level 2 of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS 2).
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