China vs Kuwait: Annual working hours per worker

China

2,328 hours per worker

in 2023

Kuwait

2,318 hours per worker

in 2023

China rank

15th

Kuwait rank

16th

Annual working hours per worker over time

China currently reports 2,328 hours per worker against 2,318 hours per worker in Kuwait, a difference of 9.85 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was China ahead.

China ranks 15th and Kuwait ranks 16th 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.