EU 7.35
· European ranking
12 / 34
Down 5 positions compared with previous year
Albania: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2024
8.20% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.35 · +0.8 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures people aged 0 to 64 living in households where working-age members worked 20% or less of their combined potential working time during the previous year. Eurostat excludes specified groups such as certain students and retired people from the work-intensity calculation.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) ilc_lvhl21n
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Regional map
· 2023 · 3 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+77.17
16.30
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2-21.74
7.20
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3-45.65
5.00
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Albania performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years), although the difference is relatively small. The trend context points to confirmed improvement.
European comparison in Albania
In Albania, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 8.2% versus 7.4% in 2024, a gap of 0.8 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Albania, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 11.80% in 2019 to 8.20% in 2024. The latest step, from 9.20% in 2023 to 8.20% in 2024, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.