Dataset
Annual working hours vs. GDP per capita
owid.annual-working-hours-vs-gdp-per-capita-pwt
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About
This is the average sum of hours worked by employees and self-employed people during each year in a country. Average economic output per person in a country or region per year. This data is adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: Feenstra et al. – Penn World Table (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Average working hours per worker – Penn World Table” [dataset]. Feenstra et al., “Penn World Table 11.0” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1950–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2025-10-09
- Units
- hours per worker; international-$ in 2021 prices; people
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-vs-gdp-per-capita-pwt
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 | |
| avh | number | Average working hours per worker (hours per worker) |
| rgdpo_pc | number | GDP per capita (international-$ in 2021 prices) |
| population_historical | number | Population (people) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |