Annual working hours per worker, 1950

Before 1950, the data comes only from full-time production workers (non-agricultural activities). Starting in 1950, estimates cover total hours worked in theeconomy as measured primarily from National Accounts data.

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Data source: Huberman & Minns (2007) and PWT 9.1 (2019)Learn more about this data

Note: We plot the data from Huberman & Minns (2007) and extend coverage using an updated vintage of PWT, which uses the same underlying source. Due to differences in measurement,comparability between countries is limited.

Annual working hours per worker

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