Average Weekly Hours Worked

Average weekly hours actually worked per employed person·Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a score·Published by International Labour Organization (ILO)

We hold 21 editions of this indicator, from 2005 to 2025 — 3,913 rows in total, and 182 countries in the newest.

21 reference years (2005–2025), covering 182 to 187 countries, an ILO modelled estimate read from ILOSTAT directly (HOW_2EMP_SEX_NB), with the female and male figures stored beside the headline. Hours ACTUALLY worked, not contracted hours. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER, and the ambiguity is real rather than diplomatic: a low figure is a short working week where hours are chosen and underemployment where they are not, and the number alone cannot say which. ⚠ Because it counts hours actually worked, leave, sickness and short time pull it below the contractual week everywhere — it is not a measure of the legal maximum. Read beside output per hour. ⚠ Some recent values are flagged "Model-based extrapolation"; the status is stored per row. The ILO ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION is a SIZE ORDER derived here and labelled as ours.