# Countries by average weekly hours worked, 2023

All 97 values come from International Labour Organization for 2023, so the places are comparable. 60 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `weekly_hours_worked`
- Unit: hours per week
- Definition: Average number of hours actually worked per week in the main job by employed people, full-time and part-time together, from labour force and household surveys compiled by the ILO (13th ICLS definitions). Hours actually worked include overtime and exclude paid leave.
- Source: International Labour Organization, Average weekly hours actually worked per employed person by sex, total, annual (DF_HOW_TEMP_SEX_NB) (https://data.ilo.org/vis?df%5Bds%5D=ds-production&df%5Bid%5D=DF_HOW_TEMP_SEX_NB&df%5Bag%5D=ILO)
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- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT. Average weekly hours actually worked per employed person by sex, total, annual (DF_HOW_TEMP_SEX_NB). https://data.ilo.org/vis?df%5Bds%5D=ds-production&df%5Bid%5D=DF_HOW_TEMP_SEX_NB&df%5Bag%5D=ILO (Accessed on 2026-10-12). Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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| Rank | Place | hours per week |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jordan | 48.8 |
| 2 | United Arab Emirates | 48.7 |
| 3 | Mongolia | 47.2 |
| 4 | Iran | 46.8 |
| 5 | Bangladesh | 46 |
| 6 | Senegal | 45.9 |
| 7 | India | 45.8 |
| 8 | Zimbabwe | 45.5 |
| 9 | Brunei | 45.2 |
| 10 | Equatorial Guinea | 45.1 |
| 11 | Egypt | 44.4 |
| 12 | Colombia | 43.8 |
| 13 | Türkiye | 43.8 |
| 14 | Honduras | 43.7 |
| 15 | Jamaica | 43.6 |
| 16 | Zambia | 43.6 |
| 17 | Montenegro | 43.5 |
| 18 | Angola | 43.5 |
| 19 | Botswana | 43.4 |
| 20 | El Salvador | 43 |
| 21 | Mali | 42.9 |
| 22 | Costa Rica | 42.9 |
| 23 | Eswatini | 42.7 |
| 24 | South Africa | 42.6 |
| 25 | Cambodia | 42.5 |
| 25 | Mexico | 42.5 |
| 27 | Grenada | 42.4 |
| 28 | Thailand | 42.3 |
| 29 | Paraguay | 42.1 |
| 30 | Vietnam | 41.8 |
| 31 | Sri Lanka | 41.7 |
| 32 | Albania | 41.6 |
| 33 | Gambia | 41.6 |
| 34 | Serbia | 41.4 |
| 35 | Guatemala | 41.4 |
| 36 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 41.3 |
| 37 | Saint Lucia | 40.9 |
| 38 | Dominican Republic | 40.4 |
| 39 | Mauritius | 40.3 |
| 40 | Georgia | 40.3 |
| 41 | Antigua and Barbuda | 40.2 |
| 42 | Chile | 40.1 |
| 43 | Philippines | 40 |
| 44 | Seychelles | 40 |
| 45 | Greece | 39.8 |
| 46 | Romania | 39.4 |
| 47 | Moldova | 39.4 |
| 48 | North Macedonia | 39.3 |
| 48 | Russia | 39.3 |
| 50 | Bahamas | 39.2 |
| 51 | Belarus | 39.1 |
| 52 | South Korea | 39.1 |
| 53 | Poland | 39.1 |
| 54 | Bulgaria | 39 |
| 55 | Brazil | 38.8 |
| 56 | Kyrgyzstan | 38.7 |
| 57 | Israel | 38.5 |
| 58 | Indonesia | 38.4 |
| 59 | Cyprus | 38.2 |
| 60 | Lithuania | 38 |
| 61 | Czechia | 37.9 |
| 62 | Croatia | 37.9 |
| 63 | Bolivia | 37.8 |
| 64 | Latvia | 37.8 |
| 64 | United States | 37.8 |
| 66 | Portugal | 37.8 |
| 67 | Slovenia | 37.7 |
| 68 | Peru | 37.7 |
| 69 | Hungary | 37.6 |
| 70 | Slovakia | 37.5 |
| 71 | Malta | 37.1 |
| 72 | Uruguay | 36.7 |
| 73 | Spain | 36.2 |
| 74 | Panama | 36.2 |
| 75 | Italy | 36 |
| 76 | Estonia | 35.9 |
| 77 | France | 35.7 |
| 78 | Switzerland | 35.5 |
| 79 | Canada | 35.3 |
| 80 | Belgium | 35.2 |
| 81 | Luxembourg | 35.1 |
| 82 | Iceland | 35.1 |
| 83 | United Kingdom | 35 |
| 84 | Ecuador | 34.7 |
| 85 | Ghana | 34.6 |
| 86 | Sweden | 34.5 |
| 87 | Cook Islands | 34.5 |
| 88 | Ireland | 34.2 |
| 89 | Finland | 33.7 |
| 90 | Germany | 33.5 |
| 91 | Austria | 33.2 |
| 92 | Denmark | 32.9 |
| 93 | Norway | 32.8 |
| 94 | Tonga | 31.8 |
| 95 | Rwanda | 31.1 |
| 96 | Netherlands | 30.4 |
| 97 | Kiribati | 27.7 |