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Average Weekly Hours Worked

21 years, 2005–2025 · 182 countries · 3 measures

This is how many hours the average employed person actually works in a week — not what their contract says, but what they report doing, including overtime and after subtracting leave and sickness.

This site holds every year from 2005 to 2025, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Average Weekly Hours Worked · the file

Newest
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2025
Held
21 years · 3,913 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0121 years

Every year

Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2005bar height: countries covered, up to 1872025
Every year of Average Weekly Hours Worked held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2025Newest182±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2024182−2September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2023184−2September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2022186−1September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2021187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2020187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2019187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2018187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2017187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2016187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2015187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2014187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Show all 21 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2013187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2012187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2011187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2010187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2009187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2008187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2007187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2006187±0September 10, 2026CSV
Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2005187—September 10, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: weekly-hours-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

026 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Average Weekly Hours Worked: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1820
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1820
Average weekly hours actually worked per employed personweekly_hoursHeadlineThe headline figure: Average weekly hours actually worked per employed person.Number · up to 2 decimals23.64Yemen54.70Bhutanmiddle 38.891720
Women (hours)femaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 2 decimals15.51Yemen53.79Bhutanmiddle 35.791770
Men (hours)maleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 2 decimals24.15Yemen55.31Bhutanmiddle 41.081780
ILO observation statusobservation_statusFlagILO’s flag on the reading, such as an estimate or a provisional figure.Text—1181

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03187 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Average Weekly Hours Worked, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa535353535353535353525151
Americas333333333333333333333333
Asia515151515151515151504949
Europe393939393939393938383838
Oceania111111111111111111111111
All187187187187187187187187186184182182

The newest 12 of 21 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    − Lebanon− South Sudan
  • 2023
    − Palestine− Sudan
  • 2022
    − Ukraine

Not in this dataset · 37 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    International Labour Organization (ILO)

    ilostat.ilo.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Average Weekly Hours Worked 2025

    Read from the publisher’s own service.

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    21 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as weekly-hours-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/weekly-hours

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

An ILO modelled estimate read from ILOSTAT directly (HOW_2EMP_SEX_NB). Years beyond the current one are not imported.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Average Weekly Hours Worked, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

International Labour Organization (ILO). Average Weekly Hours Worked, 2005–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/weekly-hours

The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILO modelled estimates. Geneva: ILOSTAT.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Average Weekly Hours Worked: questions and answers

What is the Average Weekly Hours Worked?

This is how many hours the average employed person actually works in a week — not what their contract says, but what they report doing, including overtime and after subtracting leave and sickness.

Which years of the Average Weekly Hours Worked can I download?

All 21, from 2005 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does ILO rank countries on it?

No. ILO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.

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