Announcement of 'average working hours per worker' everywhere in the world, how much workers in Japan work?

by Solomon Hsu

International organizations consulting on the global economy The statistical information published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has revealed " average annual working hours per worker " in various countries around the world.

Average annual hours actually worked per worker
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=ANHRS#

Statistical information by the OECD is displayed as follows, "The average annual working time per worker" is recorded from 2000 to the latest 2017 years for 18 years. The data of 38 countries is arranged in order of the country name, and the number written in the table is "the average annual working time per worker".

It is possible to check the working hours for each target country if it is as it is, but it is difficult to understand such as "which country's working hours are long?" In such a case click on the triangle displayed under "Year".

Then, "Average annual working hours per worker" is rearranged in order of longest. The following is the "average annual working hours per worker" worst in the year 2017. The longest working hours are 2257 hours in Mexico, followed by Costa Rica (2179 hours), Korea (2024 hours), Greece (2018 hours), Russia (1980 hours), Chile (1954 hours), Poland (1895 hours) · Israel (1885 hours) · Latvia (1875 hours) · Portugal (1863 hours).

On the contrary, the best 10 countries whose "average work hours per worker" is short are as follows. The shortest time is 1356 hours in Germany, hereafter Denmark (1408 hours), Norway (1419 hours), Netherlands (1433 hours), France (1514 hours), Luxembourg (1518 hours), Switzerland (1570 hours), Sweden 1570 hours) · Austria (1613 hours) · Finland (1628 hours) and so on.

"Average annual working hours per worker" in Japan. The average working time in 2017 (1710 hours) is shorter than 100 hours compared with 2000 (1821 hours). It also features that working hours have been shortened for six consecutive years from 2012 to 2017. Furthermore, assuming that 1710 hours is a weekly 2 days / annual holiday of 120 days (245 days a year), the average working hours per day is 6.98 hours.

In addition, it seems that the statistics bureau of Japan's data summarizes employee employment data collected by monthly labor survey by the coordinating organization.