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

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

Country overview

Spain

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

8.00 Percent of people aged 0 to 64

European ranking

11 / 30

Compared with Europe

+0.7 puntos

Spain is 0.7 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 3.93 million people affected

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 8.00 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

    Ciudad de Ceuta

    +243.80

    27.50

  2. 2

    Ciudad de Melilla

    +198.80

    23.90

  3. 3

    Andalucía

    +50.00

    12.00

  4. 4

    Canarias

    +45.00

    11.60

  5. 5

    Principado de Asturias

    +38.80

    11.10

  6. 6

    Castilla-La Mancha

    +25.00

    10.00

  7. 7

    Región de Murcia

    +25.00

    10.00

  8. 8

    Castilla y León

    +18.80

    9.50

  9. 9

    Cantabria

    +12.50

    9.00

  10. 10

    Comunitat Valenciana

    -1.30

    7.90

  11. 11

    Extremadura

    -3.80

    7.70

  12. 12

    Galicia

    -5.00

    7.60

  13. 13

    Comunidad Foral de Navarra

    -7.50

    7.40

  14. 14

    La Rioja

    -7.50

    7.40

  15. 15

    País Vasco

    -8.80

    7.30

  16. 16

    Cataluña

    -26.30

    5.90

  17. 17

    Aragón

    -38.80

    4.90

  18. 18

    Illes Balears

    -42.50

    4.60

  19. 19

    Comunidad de Madrid

    -56.30

    3.50

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Spain 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 recent stabilization. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Spain

In Spain, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 8.0% versus 7.1% in 2025, a gap of 1.0 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Spain, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 10.00% in 2020 to 8.00% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 8.00% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.

Regional differences in Spain

In Spain, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Ceuta records the highest value (27.5%) and Comunidad de Madrid the lowest (3.5%), a gap of 24 percentage points.