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

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

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

Country overview

Denmark

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

9.70 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

5 / 30

Compared with Europe

+2.4 puntos

Denmark is 2.4 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 0.58 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 9.70 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

    Midtjylland

    +15.50

    11.20

  2. 2

    Hovedstaden

    +1.00

    9.80

  3. 3

    Nordjylland

    -2.10

    9.50

  4. 4

    Syddanmark

    -3.10

    9.40

  5. 5

    Sjælland

    -23.70

    7.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Denmark 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 recent departure from stability. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Denmark

In Denmark, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 9.7% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 2.7 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Denmark, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 9.10% in 2020 to 9.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 10.60% in 2024 to 9.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.

Regional differences in Denmark

In Denmark, regional values for Low work intensity are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Midtjylland records the highest value (11.2%) and Sjælland the lowest (7.4%), a gap of 3.8 percentage points.