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

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

Country overview

Netherlands

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

7.80 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

13 / 30

Compared with Europe

+0.5 puntos

Netherlands is 0.5 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 1.41 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 7.80 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

    Groningen

    +29.50

    10.10

  2. 2

    Noord-Holland

    +23.10

    9.60

  3. 3

    Zuid-Holland Zuid

    +12.80

    8.80

  4. 4

    Zuid-Holland Centraal

    +11.50

    8.70

  5. 5

    Limburg (NL)

    +9.00

    8.50

  6. 6

    Drenthe

    +9.00

    8.50

  7. 7

    Overijssel

    +1.30

    7.90

  8. 8

    Noord-Brabant

    -19.20

    6.30

  9. 9

    Gelderland

    -21.80

    6.10

  10. 10

    Friesland (NL)

    -35.90

    5.00

  11. 11

    Flevoland

    -47.40

    4.10

  12. 12

    Zeeland

    -64.10

    2.80

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At a glance

Netherlands performs less 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 stability. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Netherlands

In Netherlands, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 7.8% versus 7.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.8 percentage points.

Recent trend

In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 8.70% in 2020 to 7.80% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 8.00% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Regional differences in Netherlands

In Netherlands, Low work intensity shows noticeable regional variation. Across 12 comparable regions, Groningen records the highest value (10.1%) and Zeeland the lowest (2.8%), a gap of 7.3 percentage points.