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Average Annual Hours Actually Worked per Worker

hours per worker per year · Annual · OECD

OECD.HOURS.ACTUAL.A

History: New Zealand (NZL). Dates filter the start of each reference period.

OECD annual hours worked are intended for trends within countries; national methods differ.

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Includes employees and self-employed and all jobs. OECD states these data are unsuitable for comparing annual levels across countries because national sources and calculation methods differ; use for trends within an economy. Definition: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html OECD Data Terms section 3 permits commercial reuse with attribution except separately restricted or third-party-owned data; no additional restriction was identified in the pinned flow metadata reviewed 2026-10-10. Collection time is not an original publication timestamp. Source observation flags and reference periods are retained.

OECD (2026), Average annual hours actually worked per worker, https://data-explorer.oecd.org/?lc=en&df[ag]=OECD.ELS.SAE&df[id]=DSD_HW@DF_AVG_ANN_HRS_WKD&df[vs]=1.0 (accessed on 2026-10-17). Retain OECD attribution in further redistribution.

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Series-wide coverage: 2000-01-01 to 2025-01-01. SOTW publication: 2026-10-17T20:40:15.927202+00:00.

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OECD annual hours worked are intended for trends within countries; national methods differ.

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  "unit": "hours per worker per year",
  "dataset": "OECD.ELS.SAE,DSD_HW@DF_AVG_ANN_HRS_WKD,1.0",
  "selection": {
    "AGE": "_Z",
    "SEX": "_Z",
    "MEASURE": "HW",
    "HOURS_TYPE": "ACTUAL",
    "HOUR_BANDS": "_Z",
    "WORK_PERIOD": "A",
    "JOB_COVERAGE": "_T",
    "UNIT_MEASURE": "H_Y_PS",
    "WORKER_STATUS": "_T",
    "WORK_TIME_ARNGMNT": "_Z",
    "LABOUR_FORCE_STATUS": "EMP",
    "AGGREGATION_OPERATION": "MEAN"
  },
  "terms_url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/about/terms-conditions.html",
  "adjustment": "Not applicable",
  "geo_mapping": {
    "EA": "EA",
    "EU": "EU",
    "G20": "G20",
    "EA20": "EA20",
    "EU27_2020": "EU27"
  },
  "source_unit": "H_Y_PS",
  "comparability": "Within-economy trends; unsuitable for comparing annual levels across countries.",
  "transformation": "Not applicable",
  "api_guidance_url": "https://www.oecd.org/en/data/insights/data-explainers/2024/11/Api-best-practices-and-recommendations.html",
  "reference_period": null,
  "source_attributes": {
    "UNIT_MULT": ""
  },
  "aggregate_identity": "Generic EA and EU retain OECD source identities; membership is not inferred as EA20 or EU27. Explicit EA20 and EU27_2020 carry fixed-membership labels from OECD CL_AREA."
}