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Annual Working Hours In OECD Countries Around The World, Ranked

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
Annual Working Hours In OECD Countries Around The World, Ranked
With an average of 2,128 hours clocked every year, Mexico works the most hours of any country analyzed.
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To illustrate the varying working hours and working cultures around the world, Visual Capitalist ranked the total average hours worked annually by the OECD's 38 members — that is, the countries in the intergovernmental group Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — as well as six additional countries. Their analysis included full-time and part-time workers.


Key Findings:

  • Mexico works the highest number of hours overall, with the average worker clocking over 2,000 hours each year. The country's 2,128-hour total equates to 266 eight-hour workdays.

  • The OECD country with the lowest annual working hours is Germany, where people work an average of 1,349 hours per year.

  • While Japan was found to work a relatively low 1,607 hours, it's worth noting that almost 40 percent of the country's workforce is non-regular — meaning the average yearly figure may skew downwards and not accurately reflect the actual hours clocked by Japanese workers.


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annual working hours countries oecd



Via Visual Capitalist.

Comments

  1. Neal Schultz 8 months ago

    Notice that nearly all of the EU countries have very low working hours compared to everybody else. Their six-week vacations are nearly all financed by the U.S. taxpayer. EU countries give paid vacations to their citizens while the U.S. taxpayer pays for the majority of their defense costs to NATO. EU pays very little for their defense - the U.S. pays for the EU citizen vacations!!!! That helps to explain why their annual working hours are so LOW.... >:-(

    1. Joe Publique 8 months ago

      Hey kids, stay in school or you’ll end up like this guy! The six-weeks paid ‘vacation’ workers enjoy in many parts of Europe are not subsidised by the government, so the ‘NATO’ argument is BS. We have 28 days of paid leave + statutory time off because workers actually have rights here and we have unions to protect those rights. Employers can’t abuse/underpay you and pass the cost on to the consumer, they can’t fire you without good reason, and they can’t discriminate due to colour/race/creed. Employers also understand that happy employees = more productivity, loyalty, and a better quality of life for everyone (bosses get the same time off too). Try reading a book instead of regurgitating the lies of your Orange Overlord.

    2. Vincent Block 8 months ago

      Everytime the EU make moves toward a unifies defence force the US freaks out because it wouldn't have total hegemony. So it moans about nato defence but it hates the alternative worse

      1. Joe Publique 8 months ago

        American exceptionalism is a mental illness.

  2. VserveEcommerce 10 months ago

    Will shift to Mexico

  3. Sonal Shetty 10 months ago

    Good Insights

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