Kuwait vs Malaysia: Annual working hours per worker

Kuwait

2,318 hours per worker

in 2023

Malaysia

2,308 hours per worker

in 2023

Kuwait rank

16th

Malaysia rank

18th

Annual working hours per worker over time

Kuwait currently reports 2,318 hours per worker against 2,308 hours per worker in Malaysia, a difference of 10.43 hours per worker.

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

Kuwait ranks 16th and Malaysia ranks 18th 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.