# EU countries by average weekly hours worked, 2024

All 26 values come from International Labour Organization for 2024, so the places are comparable. 1 EU 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)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/ilo
- 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/average-weekly-hours-worked/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | hours per week |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Greece | 39.8 |
| 2 | Bulgaria | 39 |
| 3 | Romania | 38.7 |
| 4 | Poland | 38.6 |
| 5 | Czechia | 38 |
| 5 | Lithuania | 38 |
| 7 | Latvia | 37.8 |
| 8 | Cyprus | 37.7 |
| 9 | Slovenia | 37.6 |
| 10 | Croatia | 37.6 |
| 11 | Portugal | 37.2 |
| 12 | Hungary | 37.2 |
| 13 | Malta | 37.1 |
| 14 | Spain | 36.3 |
| 15 | Italy | 36 |
| 16 | Estonia | 35.8 |
| 17 | France | 35.5 |
| 18 | Luxembourg | 35.2 |
| 19 | Belgium | 35 |
| 20 | Sweden | 34.5 |
| 21 | Ireland | 34.2 |
| 22 | Finland | 33.8 |
| 23 | Austria | 33.4 |
| 24 | Germany | 33.3 |
| 25 | Denmark | 32.4 |
| 26 | Netherlands | 30.2 |