9.5 million part-time workers in the EU would prefer to work more

Eurostat/ 9.5 million part-time workers in the EU would prefer to work more/ 23 May 2017

Among the population aged 15 to 74 in the European Union (EU), 224 million were employed in 2016, 21 million were unemployed and 135 million were economically inactive.

Around 8 in every 10 of those employed in the EU worked full-time and 2 in 10 part-time. Among these 45.3 million people working part-time, 9.5 million were underemployed, meaning they wished to work more hours and were available to do so. This corresponds to a fifth (20.9%) of all part-time workers and 4.2% of total employment in the EU in 2016. Two thirds of these underemployed part-time workerswere women (65%).

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