Average Annual Hours Actually Worked per Worker: Japan

The latest reading SOTW holds for Japan is 1,597.5 hours per worker per year for 2025, from OECD.

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

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

1,597.5

hours per worker per year · 2025

Previous

1,617.4

hours per worker per year · 2024

Earliest held

1,821.0

hours per worker per year · 2000

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