EU 7.05
· European ranking
24 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Malta: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
4.20% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · -2.8 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
Malta 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 stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Malta
In Malta, Low work intensity is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 4.2% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 2.9 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Malta, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 5.40% in 2020 to 4.20% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 4.50% in 2024, confirming the stable reading.
Reading within the topic
In Malta, 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.