Average Annual Hours Actually Worked per Worker: France
The latest reading SOTW holds for France is 1,498.3 hours per worker per year for 2025, from OECD.
Reviewed series · Labor · Annual · hours per worker per year · OECD.HOURS.ACTUAL.A · FRA
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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- Latest
- 1,498.3
- hours per worker per year · 2025
- Previous
- 1,509.3
- hours per worker per year · 2024
- Earliest held
- 1,542.1
- hours per worker per year · 2000
- Readings shown
- 26
- Every reading SOTW holds
France · history
hours per worker per year · Annual
Readings, newest first
| Period | Value (hours per worker per year) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,498.3 |
| 2024 | 1,509.3 |
| 2023 | 1,503.1 |
| 2022 | 1,498.0 |
| 2021 | 1,468.6 |
| 2020 | 1,390.9 |
| 2019 | 1,504.4 |
| 2018 | 1,499.7 |
| 2017 | 1,492.0 |
| 2016 | 1,507.4 |
| 2015 | 1,504.3 |
| 2014 | 1,504.2 |
| 2013 | 1,512.8 |
| 2012 | 1,527.9 |
| 2011 | 1,533.7 |
| 2010 | 1,528.0 |
| 2009 | 1,520.0 |
| 2008 | 1,531.9 |
| 2007 | 1,525.4 |
| 2006 | 1,503.4 |
| 2005 | 1,518.6 |
| 2004 | 1,517.3 |
| 2003 | 1,493.4 |
| 2002 | 1,489.7 |
| 2001 | 1,523.1 |
| 2000 | 1,542.1 |
Source: OECD. All 26 readings held, 2000 to 2025. n/a means the source value is missing or withheld.