Living and working in Europe 2025
Published: 7 May 2026
In 2025, cost-of-living pressures, housing insecurity and fragile mental well-being continued to shape the lived experience of millions of Europeans. This yearbook draws on the latest round of Eurofound’s Living and Working in the EU e-survey, the 2024 European Working Conditions Survey and a rich body of research published over the past year. It focuses on three connected themes: work (job quality, wages, ageing and sectoral restructuring), quality of life (housing, mental health and institutional trust) and inequality (the gender pay gap and the distribution of wealth). Eurofound’s research on working and living conditions in Europe provides a bedrock of evidence for input into social policymaking and achieving the Agency’s vision ‘to be Europe’s leading knowledge source for better life and work’.
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List of tables
Table 1: Job quality of older employees aged 55+, by job profile and indicators of the job quality index, EU, 2021
Table 2: Implications of unmet housing preferences among young adults (%)
Table 3: Average net wealth, by net wealth percentile, EU-22, 2021 (nominal EUR)
Eurofound recommends citing this publication in the following way.
Eurofound (2026), Living and working in Europe 2025, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg.
