Greece vs South Korea: Annual working hours per worker

Greece

1,893 hours per worker

in 2023

South Korea

1,910 hours per worker

in 2023

Greece rank

74th

South Korea rank

73rd

Annual working hours per worker over time

South Korea currently reports 1,910 hours per worker against 1,893 hours per worker in Greece, a difference of 17.17 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 71 shared years of data; in 1953 it was South Korea ahead.

Greece ranks 74th and South Korea ranks 73rd 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.