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

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

Country overview

Italy

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

8.20 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

10 / 30

Compared with Europe

+0.9 puntos

Italy is 0.9 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 4.83 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 8.20 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

    Campania

    +147.60

    20.30

  2. 2

    Sicilia

    +108.50

    17.10

  3. 3

    Calabria

    +100.00

    16.40

  4. 4

    Sardegna

    +74.40

    14.30

  5. 5

    Molise

    +64.60

    13.50

  6. 6

    Puglia

    +58.50

    13.00

  7. 7

    Liguria

    -13.40

    7.10

  8. 8

    Abruzzo

    -18.30

    6.70

  9. 9

    Umbria

    -20.70

    6.50

  10. 10

    Basilicata

    -20.70

    6.50

  11. 11

    Lazio

    -28.00

    5.90

  12. 12

    Friuli-Venezia Giulia

    -30.50

    5.70

  13. 13

    Provincia Autonoma di Trento

    -40.20

    4.90

  14. 14

    Marche

    -41.50

    4.80

  15. 15

    Toscana

    -42.70

    4.70

  16. 16

    Piemonte

    -43.90

    4.60

  17. 17

    Lombardia

    -56.10

    3.60

  18. 18

    Veneto

    -67.10

    2.70

  19. 19

    Emilia-Romagna

    -74.40

    2.10

  20. 20

    Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano / Bozen

    -76.80

    1.90

  21. 21

    Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste

    -100.00

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At a glance

Italy 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 Italy

In Italy, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 8.2% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.2 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Italy, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 10.20% in 2020 to 8.20% in 2025. The latest step, from 9.20% in 2024 to 8.20% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Regional differences in Italy

In Italy, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 21 comparable regions, Campania records the highest value (20.3%) and Valle dAosta / Vallée dAoste the lowest (0%), a gap of 20.3 percentage points.