Dataset
Annual working hours per worker, various sources
owid.compare-sources-working-hours
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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 working hours per year for full-time production workers in non-agricultural activities.
Cite as: Bick et al. (2019) – processed by Our World in Data. “Bick et al.” [dataset]. Bick et al., “Hours worked in Europe and the United States: New data, new answers” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1870–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-10-09
- Units
- hours per worker
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/compare-sources-working-hours
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 | |
| average_annual_hours_worked_per_employed_person__bick_et_al_2019 | number | Bick et al. |
| avh | number | Penn World Table (PWT) (hours per worker) |
| working_hours_year | number | Huberman & Minns (hours per worker) |
| average_annual_hours_actually_worked_per_worker__oecd | number | OECD |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |