Annual working hours per worker

Average working hours per worker over an entire year. Before 1950 the data corresponds only to full-time production workers (non-agricultural activities). Starting in1950 estimates cover total hours worked in the economy as measured primarily from National Accounts data.

Source: Huberman & Minns (2007) and PWT 9.1 (2019)

Note: We plot the data from Huberman & Minns (2007) and extend coverage using an updated vintage of PWT, which uses the same underlying source. Comparisons between countries are limited due todifferences in measurement.