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

An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.

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

Country overview

Sweden

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

12 / 30

Compared with Europe

+0.7 puntos

Sweden is 0.7 points above the European average.

EU: 7.30

Affected population

≈ 0.85 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

    Östra Mellansverige

    +22.50

    9.80

  2. 2

    Sydsverige

    +16.30

    9.30

  3. 3

    Norra Mellansverige

    +16.30

    9.30

  4. 4

    Mellersta Norrland

    +6.30

    8.50

  5. 5

    Småland med öarna

    -10.00

    7.20

  6. 6

    Stockholm

    -10.00

    7.20

  7. 7

    Övre Norrland

    -11.30

    7.10

  8. 8

    Västsverige

    -15.00

    6.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Sweden 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 Sweden

In Sweden, 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 Sweden, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 7.90% in 2020 to 8.00% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 7.70% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.

Regional differences in Sweden

In Sweden, regional values for Low work intensity are relatively close. Across 8 comparable regions, Östra Mellansverige records the highest value (9.8%) and Västsverige the lowest (6.8%), a gap of 3 percentage points.