EU 7.05
· European ranking
6 / 30
No change compared with previous year
Turkey: Jobless Households
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Latest value
· 2025
9.40% of people aged 0 to 64
EU 7.05 · +2.4 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
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At a glance
Turkey 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 stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader pressure.
European comparison in Turkey
In Turkey, Low work intensity is noticeably worse than the European benchmark: 9.4% versus 7.1% in 2025, with a gap of 2.4 percentage points.
Recent trend
In Turkey, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 10.30% in 2020 to 9.40% in 2025. The latest value also changes little from 9.30% in 2024, so the recent reading remains stable.
Reading within the topic
In Turkey, 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.