Japan vs Spain: Annual working hours per worker

Japan

1,654 hours per worker

in 2023

Spain

1,638 hours per worker

in 2023

Japan rank

97th

Spain rank

99th

Annual working hours per worker over time

Japan currently reports 1,654 hours per worker against 1,638 hours per worker in Spain, a difference of 15.91 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Spain ahead.

Japan ranks 97th and Spain ranks 99th 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.