Countries With the Highest Hours Worked

Every country with a figure for hours worked, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are South Africa (2,209), Mexico (2,143) and Korea, Rep. (2,069). The middle country of the 38 has 1,740.

What this measures

Average annual hours worked per person employed, in hours per year. Source: OECD. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

Hours actually worked, averaged over everyone with a job, including part-timers. So it is lower where part-time work is common, as well as where full-time weeks are short. From a 2017 release kept as a snapshot, so the series ends in 2016. No "better" direction is set.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2014–2017. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on hours worked

• Countries With the Lowest Hours Worked
• Hours worked by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Highest Active Labour Market Spending
• Countries With the Highest Unemployment Benefit Spending
• Countries With the Highest Retirement Age, Men
• Countries With the Highest Retirement Age, Women
• Countries With the Highest Informal Employment
• Countries With the Highest Unemployment
• Countries With the Highest Female Labor Participation
• Countries With the Highest Male Labor Participation

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.