Ratio of total weekly hours worked to population aged 15-64 (ILO modelled estimates) by country

Name: Ratio of total weekly hours worked to population aged 15-64 (ILO modelled estimates)
Creator: International Labour Organization
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Countries reporting

189

Highest

41.97

Cambodia

Lowest

6.66

Yemen

Median

25.52

Years covered

2005–2027

Data points

6,324

What the numbers show

Ratio of total weekly hours worked to population aged 15-64 (ILO modelled estimates) is currently reported for 189 countries. The highest value is 41.97 in Cambodia; the lowest is 6.66 in Yemen.

The median across all reporting countries is 25.52, and the mean is 25.35.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.

Over the past decade 121 countries rose and 67 fell. The largest increase was in Uganda (up 43.1%), and the largest decrease in Afghanistan (down 27.8%).

Ratio of total weekly hours worked to population aged 15-64: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	Cambodia	41.97	2027	up 5.1%	rising
2	Qatar	39.92	2027	down 8.0%	flat
3	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	39.64	2027	up 4.2%	flat
4	United Arab Emirates	38.04	2027	down 6.1%	falling
5	Liberia	37.86	2027	up 1.7%	rising
6	Bhutan	37.43	2027	up 11.3%	rising
7	Singapore	36.9	2027	up 10.8%	rising
8	Macau, China	36.72	2027	up 4.1%	rising
9	Tanzania, United Republic of	34.8	2027	up 5.2%	rising
10	Thailand	34.48	2027	up 4.3%	falling
11	Republic of Moldova	34.26	2027	up 16.5%	rising
12	Kuwait	34.09	2027	down 1.6%	rising
13	Burkina Faso	34.05	2027	down 5.3%	falling
14	Viet Nam	34.04	2027	up 2.9%	flat
15	Uganda	33.84	2027	up 43.1%	rising
16	Benin	33.48	2027	up 5.4%	rising
17	Niger	33.47	2027	up 11.4%	rising
18	Nigeria	33.25	2027	down 2.8%	flat
19	China	33.18	2027	down 4.0%	falling
20	Burundi	33.11	2027	down 1.0%	rising
21	Jamaica	32.94	2027	up 15.1%	rising
22	Hong Kong, China	32.24	2027	up 4.1%	flat
23	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	31.84	2027	up 7.2%	flat
24	Malaysia	31.78	2027	up 1.9%	rising
25	Eritrea	31.51	2027	up 0.4%	flat
26	Solomon Islands	30.85	2027	up 0.0%	flat
27	Paraguay	30.78	2027	up 3.8%	flat
28	Korea	30.75	2027	up 0.5%	flat
29	Albania	30.66	2027	up 27.9%	rising
30	Madagascar	30.61	2027	up 3.8%	rising
31	Oman	30.17	2027	down 6.4%	rising
32	Peru	30.1	2027	down 6.7%	falling
33	Maldives	29.96	2027	up 6.5%	rising
34	Brunei Darussalam	29.89	2027	up 2.7%	flat
35	Mali	29.69	2027	down 1.5%	falling
36	Chinese Taipei	29.49	2027	up 11.3%	rising
37	Bahrain	29.42	2027	down 3.5%	flat
38	Japan	29.33	2027	up 3.3%	rising
39	Lao People's Democratic Republic	29.24	2027	up 15.3%	rising
40	El Salvador	29.22	2027	up 10.4%	rising
41	Iceland	29.11	2027	down 6.6%	flat
42	Bangladesh	29.02	2027	up 2.5%	rising
43	Zimbabwe	28.96	2027	up 20.2%	rising
44	Angola	28.94	2027	up 8.2%	rising
45	Russian Federation	28.92	2027	up 6.2%	rising
45	Caribbean	26.21	2027	up 3.1%	rising
46	Switzerland	28.83	2027	up 0.7%	flat
47	Bahamas	28.72	2027	up 1.7%	flat
48	Central African Republic	28.7	2027	up 1.0%	flat
49	Colombia	28.67	2027	up 2.4%	flat
49	New Zealand	28.67	2027	up 3.1%	rising
51	Guinea-Bissau	28.61	2027	up 5.5%	rising
52	Saint Lucia	28.6	2027	up 13.0%	rising
53	Serbia	28.56	2027	up 22.8%	rising
54	Côte d'Ivoire	28.42	2027	up 5.5%	rising
55	Kazakhstan	28.38	2027	up 0.7%	rising
56	Mongolia	28.21	2027	down 4.1%	flat
57	Congo	28	2027	up 1.9%	flat
57	Montenegro	28	2027	up 21.5%	rising
59	Belarus	27.94	2027	up 7.6%	rising
59	Mexico	27.94	2027	up 1.2%	flat
61	Indonesia	27.8	2027	up 1.3%	rising
62	Cameroon	27.68	2027	down 5.1%	falling
63	United States of America	27.63	2027	up 2.9%	rising
64	Bulgaria	27.58	2027	up 3.0%	rising
64	Lithuania	27.58	2027	up 6.7%	rising
66	Dominican Republic	27.55	2027	up 7.6%	rising
66	Malta	27.55	2027	up 9.0%	rising
68	Guam	27.45	2027	up 5.7%	rising
69	Cyprus	27.38	2027	up 14.7%	rising
70	Costa Rica	27.25	2027	up 3.7%	falling
71	India	27.15	2027	up 4.2%	flat
72	Poland	27.01	2027	up 8.1%	rising
73	Latvia	26.99	2027	up 4.0%	rising
74	Israel	26.91	2027	down 0.5%	rising
75	Czechia	26.86	2027	up 0.1%	rising
76	Saudi Arabia	26.85	2027	up 20.7%	rising
77	Hungary	26.75	2027	up 1.7%	rising
78	Brazil	26.69	2027	up 12.6%	flat
79	Georgia	26.62	2027	up 8.9%	rising
80	Ecuador	26.34	2027	down 3.6%	flat
81	Barbados	26.32	2027	up 1.0%	falling
81	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	26.32	2027	up 6.2%	rising
83	Cuba	26.17	2027	down 3.9%	flat
84	Equatorial Guinea	26.16	2027	down 4.6%	flat
85	Kenya	26.04	2027	down 8.8%	falling
86	Philippines	25.95	2027	up 3.1%	flat
87	Guatemala	25.88	2027	up 0.1%	flat
88	Cape Verde	25.74	2027	up 0.7%	flat
89	Australia	25.68	2027	up 5.5%	rising
90	Zambia	25.66	2027	up 16.7%	rising
91	Portugal	25.61	2027	up 4.1%	flat
92	Mauritius	25.6	2027	up 9.4%	rising
93	Myanmar	25.54	2027	down 20.5%	falling
94	Greece	25.52	2027	up 20.9%	flat
95	Honduras	25.44	2027	up 4.0%	rising
96	South Sudan	25.42	2023	up 3.1%	flat
97	Pakistan	25.41	2027	up 2.5%	flat
98	Uruguay	25.4	2027	up 0.9%	flat
99	Estonia	25.38	2027	down 6.8%	flat
100	Trinidad and Tobago	25.35	2027	down 4.0%	flat
101	Chile	25.27	2027	down 2.6%	flat
101	Panama	25.27	2027	down 4.3%	falling
103	Canada	25.16	2027	up 1.6%	flat
104	Lesotho	25.1	2027	down 5.2%	falling
105	Slovenia	25.05	2027	up 6.8%	rising
106	Mozambique	25.01	2027	up 5.3%	flat
107	Slovakia	24.99	2027	up 4.3%	rising
108	Türkiye	24.85	2027	up 8.3%	rising
109	Senegal	24.61	2027	up 22.5%	rising
110	Nicaragua	24.56	2027	up 0.4%	rising
111	Uzbekistan	24.53	2027	up 5.9%	rising
112	Romania	24.33	2027	up 1.5%	rising
113	Haiti	24.26	2027	down 2.1%	rising
114	Ukraine	24.23	2021	down 2.3%	flat
115	Argentina	24.2	2027	up 5.7%	falling
116	Western Sahara	24.17	2027	up 1.3%	rising
117	Timor-Leste	24.11	2027	up 10.4%	rising
118	United States Virgin Islands	24.07	2027	down 2.9%	falling
119	Bosnia and Herzegovina	24.06	2027	up 18.0%	rising
120	Botswana	24.04	2027	down 0.5%	falling
121	Armenia	23.97	2027	up 13.3%	flat
122	Germany	23.93	2027	up 0.6%	flat
123	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	23.81	2027	down 0.2%	rising
124	Denmark	23.75	2027	up 7.1%	flat
125	Ireland	23.45	2027	up 1.4%	flat
126	Kyrgyzstan	23.37	2027	up 5.3%	flat
127	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	23.33	2027	up 1.6%	falling
128	Sierra Leone	23.28	2027	down 1.2%	falling
129	Azerbaijan	23.27	2027	unchanged	flat
129	Belize	23.27	2027	down 13.4%	falling
129	Croatia	23.27	2027	up 11.1%	rising
132	Guyana	23.23	2027	up 9.4%	flat
133	Sweden	23.02	2027	down 2.3%	flat
134	Netherlands	22.82	2027	up 2.9%	rising
135	Luxembourg	22.73	2027	up 0.1%	rising
136	Togo	22.66	2027	up 2.9%	rising
137	Suriname	22.45	2027	down 2.3%	falling
138	Fiji	22.18	2027	up 8.0%	flat
139	Sri Lanka	22.05	2027	down 12.9%	falling
140	Papua New Guinea	22.03	2027	up 6.7%	rising
141	Austria	21.98	2027	down 2.2%	falling
142	Spain	21.97	2027	up 6.1%	flat
143	Puerto Rico	21.96	2027	up 33.7%	rising
144	Italy	21.95	2027	up 9.2%	rising
145	Finland	21.93	2027	up 0.5%	flat
146	Ethiopia	21.79	2027	down 5.6%	falling
147	Comoros	21.78	2027	up 6.7%	rising
148	North Macedonia	21.76	2027	up 6.9%	rising
149	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	21.64	2027	down 11.1%	falling
150	France	21.57	2027	up 5.6%	rising
151	Guinea	21.51	2027	down 1.8%	falling
152	Norway	21.46	2027	down 2.8%	falling
153	Belgium	21.41	2027	up 2.0%	rising
154	Namibia	21.19	2027	down 3.1%	rising
155	New Caledonia	20.9	2027	down 1.1%	flat
156	Lebanon	20.88	2023	down 3.9%	flat
157	Morocco	19.97	2027	down 1.0%	falling
158	Egypt	19.9	2027	up 6.1%	falling
159	Samoa	19.73	2027	down 16.7%	falling
160	Ghana	19.48	2027	down 13.4%	falling
161	Tunisia	19.44	2027	down 2.2%	falling
162	Iran, Islamic Republic of	19.24	2027	up 1.6%	flat
163	French Polynesia	19.16	2027	down 2.1%	flat
164	Malawi	18.93	2027	down 1.9%	falling
165	Chad	18.64	2027	down 1.1%	falling
166	Sudan	18.6	2022	down 8.6%	falling
167	Gabon	18.27	2027	down 0.1%	flat
168	Turkmenistan	17.91	2027	down 0.8%	falling
169	Rwanda	17.72	2027	down 1.1%	flat
170	Gambia	17.69	2027	down 6.3%	rising
171	Libya	17.66	2027	down 7.3%	falling
172	Jordan	17.59	2027	up 6.9%	flat
173	South Africa	17.05	2027	down 8.0%	falling
174	Algeria	17	2027	down 3.7%	falling
175	Vanuatu	16.73	2027	down 0.9%	falling
176	Tonga	16.62	2027	down 18.2%	falling
177	Nepal	15.94	2027	up 1.6%	flat
178	Tajikistan	15.64	2027	up 2.2%	falling
179	Mauritania	15.23	2027	up 0.1%	falling
180	Eswatini	14.97	2027	down 20.0%	falling
181	Palestine, State of	14.36	2022	up 9.5%	rising
182	Afghanistan	12.04	2027	down 27.8%	falling
183	Iraq	11.24	2027	down 9.3%	falling
184	Sao Tome and Principe	11.08	2027	down 1.8%	rising
185	Syrian Arab Republic	9.28	2027	down 18.5%	falling
186	Somalia	8.78	2027	down 0.1%	flat
187	Djibouti	7.77	2027	up 0.3%	falling
188	Yemen	6.66	2027	down 17.1%	falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

Eastern Asia: Upper-middle income 33.17
Chagai 23.5
Eastern Asia 32.9
Asia and the Pacific: Upper-middle income 31.7
APEC 30.88
Arab States: High income 30.79
Western Africa 30.26
Eastern Asia: High income 29.88
Sub-Saharan Africa: Lower-middle income 29.7
ASEAN 29.55
South-eastern Asia 29.54
Asia and the Pacific: High income 29.54
World: Upper-middle income 29.37
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: Upper-middle income 29.36
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: Lower-middle income 29.33
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific 29.27
Asia and the Pacific 29.23
BRICS 28.72
G20 27.96
Eastern Europe: High income 27.93
South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific: High income 27.91
World 27.49
Central America 27.41
Africa: Lower-middle income 27.4
Northern America 27.37
Northern America: High income 27.37
Eastern Europe 27.36
Asia and the Pacific: Lower-middle income 27.23
Americas: High income 27.17
Northern, Southern and Western Europe: Upper-middle income 27.16
World: Lower-middle income 27.12
World: Lower-middle income excluding India 27.08
Americas 27.06
Americas: Upper-middle income 27
Latin America and the Caribbean: Upper-middle income 27
Central and Western Asia: High income 26.97
Latin America and the Caribbean 26.89
Southern Asia: Lower-middle income 26.89
Sub-Saharan Africa 26.86
Americas: Lower-middle income 26.85

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Indicator: Ratio of total weekly hours worked to population aged 15-64 (ILO modelled estimates)
Source: International Labour Organization
Licence: ILO Terms of Use (attribution required)
Coverage: 276 places, 6,324 data points, 2005–2027
Last refreshed: 03 September 2026

Imputed observations are not based on national data, are subject to high uncertainty and should not be used for country comparisons or rankings. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. The ratio of total weekly hours worked to population aged 15-64 is the total weekly hours worked by employed persons in their main job divided by the population aged 15-64. For more information, refer to the ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST) database description.