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

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

Country overview

Germany

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

10.30 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

4 / 30

Compared with Europe

+3.0 puntos

Germany is 3.0 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 8.61 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 10.30 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

    Bremen

    +120.40

    22.70

  2. 2

    Weser-Ems

    +30.10

    13.40

  3. 3

    Berlin

    +26.20

    13.00

  4. 4

    Sachsen-Anhalt

    +26.20

    13.00

  5. 5

    Hannover

    +25.20

    12.90

  6. 6

    Trier

    +25.20

    12.90

  7. 7

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

    +25.20

    12.90

  8. 8

    Düsseldorf

    +24.30

    12.80

  9. 9

    Köln

    +21.40

    12.50

  10. 10

    Münster

    +19.40

    12.30

  11. 11

    Braunschweig

    +12.60

    11.60

  12. 12

    Arnsberg

    +11.70

    11.50

  13. 13

    Lüneburg

    +9.70

    11.30

  14. 14

    Leipzig

    +8.70

    11.20

  15. 15

    Thüringen

    +6.80

    11.00

  16. 16

    Schleswig-Holstein

    +6.80

    11.00

  17. 17

    Gießen

    +5.80

    10.90

  18. 18

    Chemnitz

    +4.90

    10.80

  19. 19

    Hamburg

    +2.90

    10.60

  20. 20

    Detmold

    +1.00

    10.40

  21. 21

    Kassel

    +1.00

    10.40

  22. 22

    Saarland

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    10.30

  23. 23

    Brandenburg

    -4.90

    9.80

  24. 24

    Rheinhessen-Pfalz

    -4.90

    9.80

  25. 25

    Freiburg

    -8.70

    9.40

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Germany 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 deterioration. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Germany

In Germany, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 10.3% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 3.3 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Germany, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 8.30% in 2020 to 10.30% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 10.00% in 2024, so the previous deterioration continues but with less intensity.

Regional differences in Germany

In Germany, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 38 comparable regions, Bremen records the highest value (22.7%) and Schwaben the lowest (4.5%), a gap of 18.2 percentage points.