EU 7.05
· European ranking
5 / 30
Down 3 positions compared with previous year
Denmark: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
9.70% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · +2.6 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 · 5 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+15.46
11.20
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2+1.03
9.80
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3-2.06
9.50
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4-3.09
9.40
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5-23.71
7.40
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Denmark performs less 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 recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Denmark
In Denmark, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 9.7% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 2.7 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Denmark, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 9.10% in 2020 to 9.70% in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 10.60% in 2024 to 9.70% in 2025, departs from that stability with an improvement.
Regional differences in Denmark
In Denmark, regional values for Low work intensity are relatively close. Across 5 comparable regions, Midtjylland records the highest value (11.2%) and Sjælland the lowest (7.4%), a gap of 3.8 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Denmark, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.