EU 7.05
· European ranking
28 / 30
Down 5 positions compared with previous year
Croatia: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
4.00% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · -3.0 pp vs Europe
What this indicator measures
Measures people aged 0 to 64 living in households where working-age members worked 20% or less of their combined potential working time during the previous year. Eurostat excludes specified groups such as certain students and retired people from the work-intensity calculation.
Lower values generally represent a more favorable situation.
Data source: Eurostat Persons living in households with very low work intensity (0 to 64 years) ilc_lvhl21n
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Regional map
· 2025 · 4 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+82.50
7.30
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2+2.50
4.10
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3-35.00
2.60
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4-60.00
1.60
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Croatia 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 confirmed improvement. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Croatia
In Croatia, Low work intensity is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.0% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 3.1 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Croatia, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 7.20% in 2020 to 4.00% in 2025. The latest step, from 4.70% in 2024 to 4.00% in 2025, confirms the improvement. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.
Regional differences in Croatia
In Croatia, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 4 comparable regions, Panonska Hrvatska records the highest value (7.3%) and Grad Zagreb the lowest (1.6%), a gap of 5.7 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Croatia, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.