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

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

Country overview

Ireland

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

8.80 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

9 / 30

Compared with Europe

+1.5 puntos

Ireland is 1.5 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 0.48 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 8.80 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

    Northern and Western

    +34.10

    11.80

  2. 2

    Southern

    +5.70

    9.30

  3. 3

    Eastern and Midland

    -14.80

    7.50

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At a glance

Ireland 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 reversal. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Ireland

In Ireland, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.8% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Ireland, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 11.10% in 2020 to 8.80% in 2025. The latest step, from 7.40% in 2024 to 8.80% in 2025, reverses the previous direction and shows recent deterioration.

Regional differences in Ireland

In Ireland, regional values for Low work intensity are relatively close. Across 3 comparable regions, Northern and Western Ireland records the highest value (11.8%) and Eastern and Midland Ireland the lowest (7.5%), a gap of 4.3 percentage points.