Average Annual Hours Actually Worked per Worker

Reviewed series · Labor · Annual · hours per worker per year · OECD.HOURS.ACTUAL.A

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.

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