Iceland vs Uruguay: Annual working hours per worker

Iceland

1,452 hours per worker

in 2023

Uruguay

1,481 hours per worker

in 2023

Iceland rank

123rd

Uruguay rank

121st

Annual working hours per worker over time

Uruguay currently reports 1,481 hours per worker against 1,452 hours per worker in Iceland, a difference of 29.14 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Uruguay ahead.

Iceland ranks 123rd and Uruguay ranks 121st 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.