European ranking
18 / 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
6.50 Percent of people aged 0 to 64
European ranking
18 / 30
Compared with Europe
-0.8 puntos
Serbia is 0.8 points below the European average.
EU: 7.30
Affected population
≈ 0.43 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
Region Južne i Istočne Srbije
9.80
Region Šumadije i Zapadne Srbije
7.10
Region Vojvodine
6.80
Beogradski region
3.00
Serbia performs more 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 improvement. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
In Serbia, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 6.5% versus 7.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.6 percentage points.
In Serbia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 16.80% in 2020 to 6.50% in 2025. The latest step, from 9.30% in 2024 to 6.50% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
In Serbia, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 4 comparable regions, Southern and Eastern Serbia records the highest value (9.8%) and Belgrade Region the lowest (3%), a gap of 6.8 percentage points.