Temporary employees as percentage of the total number of employees

In 2025, the EU-27 figure for temporary employees as percentage of the total number of employees was 11.5 .

That is a 0.9% fell versus 2024 (11.6).

Over the five years before that, the EU-27 aggregate moved 10.9% lower.

Across member states, Netherlands reported the highest value (22.3, 2025) and Lithuania the lowest (1.70, 2025) — a ratio of 13.1× between the two ends of the range.

The figures below come from Eurostat dataset tesem110; every value links back to the canonical source.