Countries With the Lowest Hours Worked

Every country with a figure for hours worked, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Germany (1,355), Denmark (1,409) and Norway (1,429). 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 Highest Hours Worked
• Hours worked by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

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