17% of EU workers are part-timers

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In 2023, the share of part-time employees aged 20-64 in the EU was 17.1%, a slight increase from 16.9% in 2022. Looking back over the last 10 years, the share of part-time workers registered a slow but steady decreasing trend from 19.1% in 2014 and 2015 to 16.9% in 2022, only going up last year.

The share of part-time employment for men has remained stable at around 8% throughout this period, but for women the share decreased by 3.9 percentage points (pp) from 31.8% in 2014 to 27.9% in 2023.

In 2023, around one-third (31.8%) of employed women aged 25-54 with children in the EU were engaged in part-time work, in contrast to 20.0% of employed women without children.

Source: 
Eurostat, 11 November 2024