Annual working hours per worker

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

1870201718801900192019401960198020002,000 hFrance

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 sameunderlying source. Due to differences in measurement, comparability between countries is limited.

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