Average annual hours worked per worker
- World median
- 1,639
- across 41 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Source updated
- —
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
No data available
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Highest 5
- 2,205
- 2,183
- 1,946
- 1,912
- 1,874
Source: OECD — OECD.ELS.SAE,DSD_HW@DF_AVG_ANN_HRS_WKD · *.HW.H_Y_PS._Z._Z.EMP.A.ACTUAL._T._Z.MEAN._Z._T
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
No series for the selected countries.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- hours per year (h/yr)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · No direction
- Valid range
- 800 – 3000
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source45 countries · 2,058 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
OECD — Average annual hours actually worked per worker
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=hours-worked" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'