Austria vs Sweden: Annual working hours per worker

Austria

1,438 hours per worker

in 2023

Sweden

1,432 hours per worker

in 2023

Austria rank

125th

Sweden rank

126th

Annual working hours per worker over time

Austria currently reports 1,438 hours per worker against 1,432 hours per worker in Sweden, a difference of 6.95 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Austria ahead.

Austria ranks 125th and Sweden ranks 126th of 130 countries.

Indicator: Annual working hours per worker
Unit: hours per worker
Source: Feenstra et al. - Penn World Table (2025); Huberman and Minns (2005) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 130 places, 5,063 data points, 1870–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Average working hours per worker in a given year.