Persons outside the labour force not seeking employment by main reason ta_wrklab_lab_act_gen__lfsa_igar

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% of inactive population (comparable)

Keywords:

employed, employment, labor market, labour market, work

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Select all	Code	Label
	2024	2024
	2023	2023
	2022	2022
	2021	2021
	2020	2020
	2019	2019
	2018	2018
	2017	2017
	2016	2016
	2015	2015
	2014	2014
	2013	2013
	2012	2012
	2011	2011
	2010	2010
	2009	2009
	2008	2008
	2007	2007
	2006	2006
	2005	2005
	2004	2004
	2003	2003
	2002	2002
	2001	2001
	2000	2000
	1999	1999
	1998	1998
	1997	1997
	1996	1996
	1995	1995
	1994	1994
	1993	1993
	1992	1992

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Geographic region

Select all	Code	Label
	EU27_2020	European Union - 27 countries (from 2020)
	EA21	Euro area - 21 countries (from 2026)
	BE	Belgium
	BG	Bulgaria
	CZ	Czechia
	DK	Denmark
	DE	Germany
	EE	Estonia
	IE	Ireland
	EL	Greece
	ES	Spain
	FR	France
	HR	Croatia
	IT	Italy
	CY	Cyprus
	LV	Latvia
	LT	Lithuania
	LU	Luxembourg
	HU	Hungary
	MT	Malta
	NL	Netherlands
	AT	Austria
	PL	Poland
	PT	Portugal
	RO	Romania
	SI	Slovenia
	SK	Slovakia
	FI	Finland
	SE	Sweden
	IS	Iceland
	NO	Norway
	CH	Switzerland
	UK	United Kingdom
	ME	Montenegro
	MK	North Macedonia
	RS	Serbia
	TR	Türkiye
	BA	Bosnia and Herzegovina

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ageFrom 15 to 19 yearsFrom 15 to 24 yearsFrom 15 to 29 yearsFrom 15 to 39 yearsFrom 15 to 59 yearsFrom 15 to 64 yearsFrom 15 to 74 yearsFrom 20 to 64 yearsFrom 25 to 49 yearsFrom 25 to 54 yearsFrom 25 to 59 yearsFrom 25 to 64 yearsFrom 25 to 74 yearsFrom 40 to 59 yearsFrom 40 to 64 yearsFrom 50 to 59 yearsFrom 50 to 64 yearsFrom 50 to 74 yearsFrom 55 to 64 yearsFrom 55 to 74 years

reasonLay-offOther family or personal reasonsOther family reasonsOther personal reasonsCare of adults with disabilities or children and other family or personal reasonsCare of adults with disabilities or childrenEducation or trainingOwn illness or disabilityBelieving no job availableOther reasonNo response

sexTotalMenWomen

unitPercentage of total populationPercentage of population outside the labour force and wanting to work

BE

BA

IS

ME

BG

FI

NL

RO

SE

DK

FR

NO

SI

LT

PT

EL

MK

SK

TR

HR

CY

CZ

EA21

IE

ES

AT

EU27_2020

DE

RS

EE

HU

LU

MT

UK

LV

CH

IT

PL

time geo	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007	2006
BE	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2(b)	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2(b)	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1		0.1	0.1	0.1(u)	0.1	0.1
BA	0.1(u)	0.3	0.3	0.3(b)
IS	(u)	(u)	(u)	(bu)	(bu)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)	(u)
ME					(u)	(u)	0.3(u)	(u)	(u)	0.3(u)	0.5	0.3(u)	(u)	(u)
BG	0.2(bu)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.3(bu)	(u)	(bu)	(u)	(u)	0.1(u)	(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.1(bu)	0.2(bu)	0.1(u)	0.2(bu)	0.3	0.3
FI	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(bu)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1	0.2	0.1(u)	0.2	0.1(u)	0.2	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1	0.1(u)	0.1(b)
NL	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5(b)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1(b)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3(b)
RO	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1	0.2(b)	(u)	(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1	0.1(u)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1(b)	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2
SE	0.1(u)	(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(bu)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(b)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1(u)	0(u)	0(u)
DK	0.1(u)	0.1(bu)	0.1	0.1(b)	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2(b)	0.2(b)	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1(u)	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2(b)	0.2	0.1(u)
FR	0.3(d)	0.4(d)	0.4(d)	0.4(bd)	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.4(b)	0.4(b)	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3(b)
NO	0.2	(u)	(u)	(bu)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	(u)	(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.2	0.2	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.2	0.2(u)	0.1(u)	0.2(b)
SI	(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(bu)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)	0.3	0.3(u)	0.1(u)	0.2(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.2(u)	0.2(u)
LT	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.2(bu)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.1(u)	0.2(u)	0.3	0.4	0.2(u)	0.3(u)	0.4(u)	0.4	0.6(u)	0.3(u)	(u)
PT	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3(b)	0.5	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3(b)	(u)	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
EL	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.6(b)	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4(b)	0.3	0.4	0.4
MK	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.7(b)	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.8
SK	0.2(u)	0.3	0.2(u)	0.3(bu)	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.4(b)	0.5	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5
TR	1.9	1.4	1.1	1.2(b)	0.9	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5(b)	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.3
HR	0.2(u)	0.3(u)	0.3(u)	0.3(bu)	0.3(u)	0.4(u)	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6(b)	0.5	0.3(u)	0.4	0.4	0.3(u)	0.5(bu)
CY	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.6(b)	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3(b)	0.4	0.5	0.7
CZ	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3(b)	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.5(b)	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6
EA21	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6(b)	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6
IE	0.9	1	0.9	1.1(b)	1.3	1.4	1.6	0.9(b)	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5(b)	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5(b)	0.6
ES	0.6(d)	0.6(d)	0.6(d)	0.6(bd)	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7(b)
AT	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6(b)	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.7(b)	0.7
EU27_2020	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5(b)	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
DE	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7(b)		0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6(b)	0.6(b)	0.5(b)	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4(b)
RS	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.5(b)	0.9	1	1	0.9	1	1.2	1.1(b)	1	0.9	0.7	0.8
EE	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.4(bu)	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.9	1	0.9	0.7	0.7	1	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.2	1
HU	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3(b)	0.8	0.7	0.7(b)	0.7	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7
LU	(u)	(u)	0.3	0.4(b)	0.6	0.7	0.9	1	0.9	0.9(b)	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.8	0.8	1.1(b)	0.2(u)	(bu)	0.2(u)
MT	0.3(u)	(u)	(u)	0.3(bu)	0.3	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.9	1	0.9	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5
UK						0.7	0.8	0.8	1	1	1	1	1.1	1	1	1.1	1.1(b)
LV	(u)	(u)	(u)	0.6(bu)	0.7	0.5	0.4	0.6	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	1.1	0.9	1.1	1.1	1.5	1.5
CH	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.9(b)	0.8	0.8	0.8	1	1	1	1	1	1	1.1	1.2(b)	1.1	1.2	1.5	1.6
IT	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.9(b)	1	1	1.1(b)	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.2	1.3	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.6	1.6	1.6
PL	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.7(b)	1.4	1.5(b)	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.3	1.3(b)	1.3	1.3	1.3	1.2

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