Denmark vs Norway: Annual working hours per worker

Denmark

1,380 hours per worker

in 2023

Norway

1,412 hours per worker

in 2023

Denmark rank

129th

Norway rank

127th

Annual working hours per worker over time

Norway currently reports 1,412 hours per worker against 1,380 hours per worker in Denmark, a difference of 32.12 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 14 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Norway ahead.

Denmark ranks 129th and Norway ranks 127th 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.