European ranking
20 / 30
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
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
5.60 Percent of people aged 0 to 64
European ranking
20 / 30
Compared with Europe
-1.7 puntos
Romania is 1.7 points below the European average.
EU: 7.30
Affected population
≈ 1.07 million people affected
Year: 2025
Embedded regional ranking preview with real regional values and shared semantic bars.
Indicator: Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years)
Granularity: Regions
Sud-Est
10.00
Vest
9.80
Sud-Vest Oltenia
7.30
Centru
6.60
Sud-Muntenia
5.40
Nord-Vest
5.40
Nord-Est
2.40
Bucureşti-Ilfov
0.90
Romania performs more 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 clearer recent change. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Romania, Low work intensity is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 5.6% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 1.5 percentage points.
In Romania, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 4.70% in 2020 to 5.60% in 2025. Although the primary period is broadly stable, the latest step, from 4.30% in 2024 to 5.60% in 2025, shows material deterioration and provides a clearer recent signal.
In Romania, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 8 comparable regions, Sud-Est records the highest value (10%) and Bucureşti-Ilfov the lowest (0.9%), a gap of 9.1 percentage points.