Annual working hours vs. productivity
Use escrito dataset owid.productivity-vs-annual-hours-worked
This is the average sum of hours worked by employees and self-employed people during each year in a country. Productivity is calculated as GDP divided by the total number of hours worked in the economy. 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. “Annual 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 per hour; people
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/productivity-vs-annual-hours-worked
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 | Annual working hours per worker (hours per worker) |
| productivity | number | Productivity: output per hour worked (international-$ in 2021 prices per hour) |
| population_historical | number | Population (people) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |