Denmark vs Sweden: Annual working hours per worker

Denmark

1,380 hours per worker

in 2023

Sweden

1,432 hours per worker

in 2023

Denmark rank

129th

Sweden rank

126th

Annual working hours per worker over time

Sweden currently reports 1,432 hours per worker against 1,380 hours per worker in Denmark, a difference of 51.56 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 81 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Sweden ahead.

Denmark ranks 129th 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.