Faroese People Continue to Work the Hardest

The Faroe Islands still have the highest employment rate in Europe, writes Statistics Iceland. Last year, the employment rate for those aged 15 to 74 was 85 per cent. 85 percent of them worked. The employment rate is particularly high among Faroese women. Iceland is in second place. There, the working frequency is 80 percent. In Sweden and Denmark, the working frequency was 74 per cent last year. It was 73 percent in Norway. One in three people …