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Annual working hours vs. GDP per capita

Working hours are the annual average per worker. GDP per capita is adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries.

Country/area
Annual working hours per worker
hours per worker • 2019
GDP per capita In constant international-$ – Penn World Table
international-$ in 2017 prices • 2019
Population
people • 2019
World regions according to OWID
2019
Afghanistan37,856,126
Aland Islands
Albania$12,5322,885,012
Algeria$11,78743,294,550
American Samoa50,230
Andorra76,491
Angola$7,16032,375,632
Anguilla$15,17814,845
Antigua and Barbuda$16,23091,377
Argentina1,609$21,82744,973,468
Armenia$14,7352,903,975
Aruba$32,614107,089
Australia1,727$54,14725,482,714
Austria1,611$53,3458,880,875
Austria-Hungary
Azerbaijan$15,85910,110,486
Bahamas$33,089394,684
Bahrain$46,9651,485,675
Bangladesh2,419$4,658164,913,060
Barbados$12,217281,216
Belarus$21,6669,435,414
Belgium1,586$44,84011,490,622
Belize$5,602385,833
Benin$3,24512,726,761
Bermuda$51,00364,130
Bhutan$11,778764,829
Bolivia$8,58511,671,386
Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba25,652
Bosnia and Herzegovina$13,7953,345,534
Botswana$16,4842,332,081
Brazil1,708$14,594207,455,459
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands$37,36936,423
Brunei$73,249442,687
Bulgaria1,645$21,3476,975,467
Burkina Faso$2,12020,961,954
Burundi$79012,255,339
Cambodia2,475$4,50016,481,304
Cameroon$3,65125,506,096
Canada1,689$49,88437,782,931
Cape Verde$7,271514,116
Cayman Islands$64,71767,346
Central African Republic$9784,944,707
Chad$1,61516,685,223
Chile1,914$23,25319,197,747
China2,169$14,1291,423,520,354
Christmas Island
Cocos Islands
Colombia1,968$14,05849,907,987
Comoros$3,209786,583
Congo$4,6575,616,656
Cook Islands16,151
Costa Rica2,069$18,5224,999,551
Cote d'Ivoire$5,03528,193,014
Croatia1,831$26,0013,986,338
Cuba11,202,847
Curacao$21,162189,556
Cyprus1,805$32,3021,286,669
Czechia1,788$37,52110,554,871
Czechoslovakia
Democratic Republic of Congo$1,02292,947,450
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Denmark1,381$54,0275,814,619
Djibouti$6,1321,088,708
Dominica$10,32867,901
Dominican Republic2,142$17,92710,894,043
Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Duchy of Parma and Piacenza
East Germany
East Timor1,300,943
Ecuador1,552$11,23617,340,017
Egypt$12,060107,553,159
El Salvador$8,1166,222,316
Equatorial Guinea$24,7131,670,184
Eritrea3,240,195
Estonia1,797$33,8521,326,821
Eswatini$7,8281,179,885
Ethiopia$2,721115,737,385
Ethiopia (former)
Falkland Islands3,541
Faroe Islands51,868
Federal Republic of Central America
Fiji$13,754914,904
Finland1,591$44,9295,521,755
France1,505$43,75565,729,460
French Guiana285,576
French Polynesia279,039
Gabon$15,4922,267,710
Gambia$2,4092,456,847
Georgia$17,0563,796,721
Germany1,386$51,19183,559,185
Ghana$5,36331,258,942
Gibraltar35,518
Grand Duchy of Baden
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Great Colombia
Greece2,036$27,20110,718,580
Greenland56,108
Grenada$15,374115,995
Guadeloupe410,267
Guam161,821
Guatemala$7,77017,103,802
Guernsey62,807
Guinea$2,28713,034,349
Guinea-Bissau$1,8501,967,704
Guyana$13,010807,667
Haiti$1,55411,105,164
Honduras$5,4289,943,637
Hong Kong2,148$54,8107,485,816
Hungary1,725$29,2369,770,346
Iceland1,454$53,012360,709
India2,123$6,7111,389,030,303
Indonesia2,020$11,595272,489,379
Iran$13,24187,051,647
Iraq$11,92041,192,172
Ireland1,772$102,6224,933,491
Isle of Man83,973
Israel1,901$38,5638,657,466
Italy1,718$40,73260,130,136
Jamaica$8,4352,823,275
Japan1,691$39,704126,699,422
Jersey102,864
Jordan$10,78910,671,892
Kazakhstan$28,30619,209,556
Kenya$4,23751,202,829
Kingdom of Bavaria
Kingdom of Sardinia
Kingdom of Saxony
Kingdom of Wurttemberg
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Kiribati123,928
Korea (former)
Kosovo1,755,048
Kuwait$62,0554,442,202
Kyrgyzstan$6,1366,494,036
Laos$7,5867,237,634
Latvia1,865$29,4111,914,267
Lebanon$14,7505,794,600
Lesotho$2,6952,209,414
Liberia$1,2585,043,720
Libya6,951,038
Liechtenstein38,462
Lithuania1,886$32,4832,795,057
Luxembourg1,506$90,479620,166
Macao$93,488670,983
Madagascar$1,53928,219,558
Malawi$1,16119,025,748
Malaysia2,197$25,73533,440,588
Maldives$19,411487,737
Mali$2,44621,068,406
Malta1,915$38,910504,017
Marshall Islands44,029
Martinique359,620
Mauritania$4,6764,467,714
Mauritius$23,4381,286,269
Mayotte274,917
Mexico2,137$18,737125,762,977
Micronesia (country)110,294
Moldova$9,4393,112,563
Monaco38,131
Mongolia$11,9003,232,119
Montenegro$21,850611,673
Montserrat$15,5734,564
Morocco$7,92436,210,907
Mozambique$1,22929,884,376
Myanmar2,447$5,15352,640,718
Namibia$9,3532,650,500
Nauru11,609
Nepal$3,63128,414,066
Netherlands1,440$55,56917,537,506
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia283,617
New Zealand1,779$41,5224,989,412
Nicaragua$5,0246,483,660
Niger$1,21122,947,765
Nigeria$4,984209,485,636
Niue1,814
Norfolk Island
North Korea26,037,633
North Macedonia$15,7801,897,643
Northern Mariana Islands48,154
Norway1,384$73,6695,347,735
Oman$30,7234,591,247
Orange Free State
Pakistan1,967$5,026230,800,909
Pakistan (former)
Palau17,820
Palestine$7,3864,957,774
Panama$29,8804,234,699
Papua New Guinea9,609,014
Paraguay$12,3206,515,060
Peru2,140$12,23732,449,301
Philippines2,168$8,449110,804,685
Pitcairn
Poland2,023$31,98538,225,884
Portugal1,865$31,79710,343,218
Puerto Rico3,288,026
Qatar$114,1012,797,927
Republic of Vietnam
Reunion857,327
Romania1,792$27,88819,501,543
Russia1,965$28,526146,533,063
Rwanda$2,28012,776,104
Saint Barthelemy10,325
Saint Helena5,485
Saint Kitts and Nevis$22,93946,974
Saint Lucia$14,238177,674
Saint Martin (French part)34,289
Saint Pierre and Miquelon5,899
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines$11,102104,182
Samoa209,793
San Marino34,674
Sao Tome and Principe$3,785213,404
Saudi Arabia$51,82530,472,810
Senegal$3,24816,352,926
Serbia$17,2206,966,154
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles$27,783117,662
Sierra Leone$1,8757,731,995
Singapore2,330$82,3365,669,562
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)$31,10140,410
Slovakia1,695$27,4735,450,626
Slovenia1,593$34,0932,083,436
Solomon Islands728,156
Somalia16,030,969
South Africa2,191$12,53659,587,880
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Korea1,980$42,21951,767,843
South Sudan10,423,382
Spain1,686$40,36647,435,120
Sri Lanka1,923$13,29022,410,552
Sudan$4,23145,548,178
Suriname$14,481605,780
Sweden1,605$52,43310,279,122
Switzerland1,557$75,2998,577,526
Syria$7,21120,353,536
Taiwan2,085$46,76123,674,137
Tajikistan$3,8949,529,971
Tanzania$2,35959,174,889
Thailand2,093$17,11671,522,265
Togo$2,2358,463,068
Tokelau2,038
Tonga105,688
Trinidad and Tobago$28,6431,484,898
Tunisia$11,09011,875,085
Turkey1,832$26,94885,357,671
Turkmenistan$26,0266,803,942
Turks and Caicos Islands43,190
Tuvalu10,603
USSR
Uganda$2,09242,999,636
Ukraine$13,14544,957,450
United Arab Emirates$66,1139,377,855
United Kingdom1,668$44,27567,110,958
United States1,765$62,589337,790,068
United States Virgin Islands89,390
Uruguay1,533$20,5453,397,205
Uzbekistan$10,49032,964,702
Vanuatu291,994
Vatican543
Venezuela$12,93528,938,095
Vietnam2,132$7,50797,173,778
Wallis and Futuna11,711
West Germany
Western Sahara538,452
Yemen$1,77735,111,417
Yemen Arab Republic
Yemen People's Republic
Yugoslavia
Zambia$3,17918,513,841
Zimbabwe$2,78815,271,377
Other
Africa1,348,005,687
Africa (UN)1,348,005,491
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Americas (UN)1,017,894,602
Asia4,651,098,712
Asia (UN)4,652,385,277
Asia (excl. China and India)1,770,525,184
Europe750,791,010
Europe (UN)749,504,129
Europe (excl. Russia)605,432,320
European Union (27)447,369,197
High-income countries1,241,335,088
Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)642,195,533
Low-income countries660,718,421
Lower-middle-income countries3,101,052,697
North America594,346,833
Northern America (UN)375,699,069
Oceania43,504,533
Oceania (UN)43,504,185
South America423,548,289
South America (excl. Brazil)217,030,880
Svalbard and Jan Mayen2,400
Upper-middle-income countries2,805,469,377
World7,811,293,714
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