EU 7.05
· European ranking
19 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Estonia: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
6.40% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · -0.6 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.
Eurostat: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) Official definition
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At a glance
Estonia performs more 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 deterioration.
European comparison in Estonia
In Estonia, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 6.4% versus 7.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Estonia, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 4.80% in 2020 to 6.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 5.30% in 2024 to 6.40% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal is stronger than the primary one.