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Belgium: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years)

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Country: Belgium Indicator: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) Year: 2025

Country overview

Belgium

Current reading for Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years)

Latest value

11.00 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

2 / 30

Compared with Europe

+3.7 puntos

Belgium is 3.7 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 1.31 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 11.00 Percent of people aged 0 to 64 Europe benchmark: 7.05 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

Internal regions

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Indicator: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years)

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

    +100.90

    22.10

  2. 2

    Prov. Hainaut

    +69.10

    18.60

  3. 3

    Prov. Liège

    +33.60

    14.70

  4. 4

    Prov. Namur

    +5.50

    11.60

  5. 5

    Prov. Brabant Wallon

    -7.30

    10.20

  6. 6

    Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen

    -21.80

    8.60

  7. 7

    Prov. Luxembourg (BE)

    -30.90

    7.60

  8. 8

    Prov. West-Vlaanderen

    -36.40

    7.00

  9. 9

    Prov. Limburg (BE)

    -43.60

    6.20

  10. 10

    Prov. Antwerpen

    -44.50

    6.10

  11. 11

    Prov. Vlaams-Brabant

    -50.90

    5.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Belgium performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years), with a moderate gap. The trend context points to confirmed improvement. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Belgium

In Belgium, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 11.0% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 4.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Belgium, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 12.40% in 2020 to 11.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 11.40% in 2024 to 11.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Belgium

In Belgium, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 11 comparable regions, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest records the highest value (22.1%) and Prov. Vlaams-Brabant the lowest (5.4%), a gap of 16.7 percentage points.