Usual weekly working hours in European Union
Employed people in the European Union usually worked 37.0 hours per week in their main job in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2008. The source marks a break in the series within this span, so values before and after it may not be fully comparable.
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by Eurostat, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2025
37.0
Change from 2024
−0.1hours per week
Usual weekly working hours in European Union over time
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Hours per week. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | European Union |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.0 hours per week |
| 2024 | 37.1 hours per week |
| 2023 | 37.1 hours per week |
| 2022 | 37.3 hours per week |
| 2021 | 37.2 hours per weekb (break in time series) |
| 2020 | 37.2 hours per week |
| 2019 | 37.3 hours per week |
| 2018 | 37.4 hours per week |
| 2017 | 37.4 hours per week |
| 2016 | 37.4 hours per week |
| 2015 | 37.4 hours per week |
| 2014 | 37.4 hours per week |
| 2013 | 37.5 hours per week |
| 2012 | 37.6 hours per week |
| 2011 | 37.7 hours per week |
| 2010 | 37.9 hours per week |
| 2009 | 38.0 hours per week |
| 2008 | 38.1 hours per week |
Flags: b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of −0.1 from 37.1 hours per week in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 37.4 hours per week, the figure has changed by −0.4. The source marks a break in the series during this period, so part of the change may come from a change in method.
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