EU 7.05
· European ranking
16 / 30
Up 1 positions compared with previous year
Latvia: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
6.60% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · -0.5 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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Internal regions
No regional breakdown available for this indicator.
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Latvia 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 recent stabilization. The wider topic context is mixed, combining pressure signals and relative strengths.
European comparison in Latvia
In Latvia, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark and slightly better: 6.6% versus 7.1% in 2025, a gap of 0.5 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Latvia, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 7.40% in 2020 to 6.60% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 6.50% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
Reading within the topic
In Latvia, Employment & Economic Security shows a mixed picture: pressure signals and relative strengths coexist across this indicator and its related indicators compared with Europe. No material recent change is detected among related indicators.