Part-time employment in European Union
17.7% of employed people aged 15 to 64 in the European Union worked part-time in 2025.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
17.7%
Change from 2024
0percentage points
Part-time employment in European Union over time
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% of total employment. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 17.7% |
| 2024 | 17.7% |
| 2023 | 17.7% |
| 2022 | 17.5% |
| 2021 | 17.7%b (break in time series) |
| 2020 | 18.2% |
| 2019 | 18.3% |
| 2018 | 18.3% |
| 2017 | 18.5% |
| 2016 | 18.6% |
| 2015 | 18.7% |
| 2014 | 18.7% |
| 2013 | 18.6% |
| 2012 | 18.1% |
| 2011 | 17.7% |
| 2010 | 17.4% |
| 2009 | 16.9% |
| 2008 | 16.4% |
| 2007 | 16.4% |
| 2006 | 16.3% |
| 2005 | 16.0%b (break in time series) |
| 2004 | 15.3% |
| 2003 | 14.6% |
| 2002 | 14.2% |
Flags: b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is unchanged from 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 18.7%, the figure has changed by −1.0 percentage points. The source marks a break in the series during this period, so part of the change may come from a change in method.
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