The European Union (EU) had 17.1% of part-time workers between 20 and 64 years old in 2023, a slight increase compared to the previous year and breaking a downward trend, with Portugal being the least.
The data comes from the EU statistical office, Eurostat, and shows that last year the percentage of part-time workers aged between 20 and 64 in the EU was 17.1%, a slight increase from 16.9 % registered in 2022.
Taking stock of the last 10 years, Eurostat points out that the percentage of part-time workers registered a slow but constant decreasing trend, from 19.1% in 2014 and 2015 to 16.9% in 2022, after having increased only the last year.
By gender, in 2023, around a third (31.8%) of employed women aged 25-54 with children in the EU worked part-time, in contrast to 20.0% of employed women without children. .
On the other hand, among men, only 5% of those who had children worked part-time, compared to those who did not have children (7.3%).
Therefore, the difference in the share of part-time work between women and men with children was 26.8 percentage points in 2023 and for men and women without children it was less than half, at 12.7 percentage points.
By country, in this age group of 25 to 54 years, Portugal only had 5.7% part-time workers in 2023, compared to 15.5% in the EU as a whole.
At these ages, it was the eighth country with the fewest part-time employees among the 27 Member States.
Source: Observadora
