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Lithuania: Jobless Households

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

Latest value

ยท 2025

11.40% of people aged 0 to 64

EU 7.05 ยท +4.4 pp vs Europe

European ranking

1 / 30

Up 3 positions compared with previous year

Recent trend

Open trend

Population

2.9M

Country population ยท 2025

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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ยท 2025 ยท 2 regions

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Internal regions

Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.

  1. 1
    +26.32

    14.40

  2. 2
    -55.26

    5.10

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Lithuania 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 confirmed deterioration. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.

European comparison in Lithuania

In Lithuania, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 11.4% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 4.4 percentage points.

Recent trend

In Lithuania, the medium-term pattern shows deterioration: the value moved from 7.20% in 2020 to 11.40% in 2025. The latest step, from 9.40% in 2024 to 11.40% in 2025, confirms the deterioration. The recent signal has similar intensity to the primary one.

Reading within the topic

In Lithuania, 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.