Dataset
Annual working hours per worker
owid.annual-working-hours-per-worker
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About
Average working hours per worker in a given year. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: Feenstra et al. – Penn World Table (2025); Huberman and Minns (2005) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Working hours per worker – Huberman and Minns, Penn World Table” [dataset]. Feenstra et al., “Penn World Table 11.0”; Huberman and Minns, “Working hours (Huberman and Minns, 2005)” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1870–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-08-05
- Units
- hours per worker
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-worker
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| working_hours_omm | number | Working hours per worker (hours per worker) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |