EU 7.05
· European ranking
11 / 30
Down 1 positions compared with previous year
Spain: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
8.00% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · +1.0 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
Explore this indicator
Regional map
· 2025 · 19 regions
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Internal regions
Comparison of values across the country's regions for this indicator.
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1+243.75
27.50
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2+198.75
23.90
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3+50.00
12.00
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4+45.00
11.60
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5+38.75
11.10
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6+25.00
10.00
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6+25.00
10.00
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8+18.75
9.50
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9+12.50
9.00
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10-1.25
7.90
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11-3.75
7.70
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12-5.00
7.60
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13-7.50
7.40
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13-7.50
7.40
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15-8.75
7.30
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16-26.25
5.90
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17-38.75
4.90
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18-42.50
4.60
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19-56.25
3.50
More context on this indicator
At a glance
Spain performs less 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 points to broader pressure. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.
European comparison in Spain
In Spain, Low work intensity is close to the European benchmark, although slightly worse: 8.0% versus 7.1% in 2025, a gap of 1.0 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Spain, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 10.00% in 2020 to 8.00% in 2025. The latest value changes little from 8.00% in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.
Regional differences in Spain
In Spain, regional differences in Low work intensity are pronounced. Across 19 comparable regions, Ciudad de Ceuta records the highest value (27.5%) and Comunidad de Madrid the lowest (3.5%), a gap of 24 percentage points.
Reading within the topic
In Spain, the evidence for Employment & Economic Security leans towards pressure compared with Europe; related indicators do not provide a sufficiently strong counter-signal. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards improvement.