Ghana vs Japan: Annual working hours per worker

Ghana

1,656 hours per worker

in 2023

Japan

1,654 hours per worker

in 2023

Ghana rank

95th

Japan rank

97th

Annual working hours per worker over time

Ghana currently reports 1,656 hours per worker against 1,654 hours per worker in Japan, a difference of 1.72 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Japan ahead.

Ghana ranks 95th and Japan ranks 97th 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.