{"id":238507,"date":"2025-12-18T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/238507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T02:22:14","slug":"eu-agricultural-labour-productivity-up-by-9-2-in-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/238507\/","title":{"rendered":"EU agricultural labour productivity up by 9.2% in 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2025, the index of agricultural labour productivity in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> increased by an estimated 9.2% compared with the previous year. This information is drawn from Eurostat\u2019s first estimates on <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/agriculture\/database?node_code=t_aact\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">economic accounts for agriculture<\/a>, published today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This productivity increase was driven by an estimated 8.1% rise in real factor income generated by agricultural holdings, and a 1.0% reduction in the volume of agricultural labour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Agricultural labour productivity increased in 19 EU countries in 2025. The sharpest increases were recorded in Luxembourg (+40.1%), Poland (+33.4%) and Estonia (+30.9%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">By contrast, declines were estimated in 8 EU countries, with the steepest drops in Croatia (-14.9%), Portugal (-10.7%) and Greece (-8.8%).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/22755411\/agriculture-labour-productivity-2025.jpg\/a3429ce2-bdcc-af04-8fba-6790e45c0332?t=1765880028358\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Agricultural labour productivity, first estimates for 2025  (% change compared with 2024). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/agriculture-labour-productivity-2025.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/14f7842b-7ce2-4c6c-b0a5-bcadf9603531?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-12-10T16:14:40Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aact_eaa06<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The gross value added by the EU\u2019s agricultural industry went up by 10.3% in 2025, compared with the previous year. During the same period, the value of agricultural output increased by 5.3%, while intermediate consumption increased by 1.5%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EU agricultural labour productivity 49% higher in 2025 than in 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2025, the EU agricultural labour productivity was 49.4% higher compared with 2015. In the same period, the index of EU real factor income increased by 20.8%, while the index of agricultural labour input declined by 19.1%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/22755411\/agriculture-labour-productivity-2015-2025.jpg\/35010f1f-91f0-0cf8-58a9-fa457828b1f1?t=1765880008991\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EU agriculture labour productivity and components, 2015-2025  (index, 2015=100). Chart. See link to the full dataset below.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/agriculture-labour-productivity-2015-2025.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/aact_eaa05\/default\/table?lang=en&amp;category=agr.aact.aact_eaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aact_eaa05<\/a>, <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/aact_eaa06\/default\/table?lang=en&amp;category=agr.aact.aact_eaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aact_eaa06<\/a> and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/aact_ali02\/default\/table?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aact_ali02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, the index of agricultural labour productivity in the EU increased by an estimated 9.2% compared with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[123168,2567,79,5720,179,18,107592,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-238507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-agr","9":"tag-agriculture","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-data-driven-news","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-forestry-and-fisheries","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115738191452588353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}