Niger vs Nigeria: Annual working hours per worker

Niger

2,069 hours per worker

in 2023

Nigeria

2,062 hours per worker

in 2023

Niger rank

53rd

Nigeria rank

54th

Annual working hours per worker over time

Niger currently reports 2,069 hours per worker against 2,062 hours per worker in Nigeria, a difference of 7.8 hours per worker.

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

Niger ranks 53rd and Nigeria ranks 54th 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.