EU 7.35
· European ranking
1 / 34
No change compared with previous year
Montenegro: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2024
17.90% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.35 · +10.5 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.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) ilc_lvhl21n
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At a glance
Montenegro performs less favourably than the European benchmark on Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years), with a large gap. The trend context points to recent reversal.
European comparison in Montenegro
In Montenegro, Low work intensity stands clearly worse than the European benchmark: 17.9% versus 7.4% in 2024, a large gap of 10.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Montenegro, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 14.00% in 2020 to 17.90% in 2024. The latest step, from 19.20% in 2023 to 17.90% in 2024, reverses the previous direction and shows recent improvement.