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Usual weekly working hours

The average number of hours employed people aged 15 to 64 usually work per week in their main job, full-time and part-time combined, from the EU Labour Force Survey.

Unit: Hours per week Frequency: Annual Coverage: 36 countries and 1 group 2008 to 2025 Source: Eurostat
Highest in 2025 44.0 hours per week Türkiye Lowest in 2025 31.5 hours per week Netherlands
European Union, 2025 37.0 hours per week Official aggregate published by the source
Countries ranked for 2025 34 Updated by the source on 30 October 2026

34 countries have a value for 2025, the latest period in the data.

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Hours per week. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Usual weekly working hours (hours per week), 2008 to 2025
Period CyprusMalta
2025 39.7 hours per week 39.3 hours per week
2024 39.9 hours per week 39.1 hours per week
2023 39.8 hours per week 39.0 hours per week
2022 39.4 hours per week 39.0 hours per week
2021 39.0 hours per weekb (break in time series) 39.3 hours per weekb (break in time series)
2020 39.3 hours per week 39.8 hours per week
2019 39.5 hours per week 39.8 hours per week
2018 39.4 hours per week 39.2 hours per week
2017 39.4 hours per week 39.0 hours per week
2016 39.3 hours per week 38.8 hours per week
2015 39.6 hours per week 38.7 hours per week
2014 39.5 hours per week 38.3 hours per week
2013 40.0 hours per week 38.6 hours per week
2012 40.0 hours per week 38.9 hours per week
2011 40.0 hours per week 38.9 hours per week
2010 40.4 hours per week 39.0 hours per week
2009 40.5 hours per weekb (break in time series) 39.0 hours per week
2008 40.4 hours per week 39.1 hours per week

Flags: b break in time series . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

  • Among the 34 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Türkiye (44.0 hours per week) and the lowest Netherlands (31.5 hours per week).
  • Half of the countries are above 39.0 hours per week and half below.
  • From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 4 countries and fell in 20.
  • The figure for the European Union was 37.0 hours per week in 2025, against 37.2 hours per week in 2020 (−0.2). The source marks a break in the series during this period, so part of the change may come from a change in method.

About this measure

Definition
The average number of hours employed people aged 15 to 64 usually work per week in their main job, full-time and part-time combined, from the EU Labour Force Survey.
Population covered
Employed people aged 15 to 64
Unit
Hours per week
Frequency
Annual
Changes are shown as
Differences in the same unit (hours per week)

Source and dates

Original producer
Eurostat
Source
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union
Dataset or series code
lfsa_ewhun2 · dataset details · view at source
Selection
freq=A sex=T age=Y15-64 worktime=TOTAL wstatus=EMP nace_r2=TOTAL unit=HR
Observation period
2008 to 2025
Provider update
30 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
Eurostat reuse policy (attribution)
Attribution
Source: Eurostat

All countries in 2025 Every value is for 2025, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.

  1. 1 Türkiye 44.0 hours per week
  2. 2 Serbia 41.6 hours per week
  3. 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina 41.2 hours per week
  4. 4 Greece 41.0 hours per week
  5. 5 North Macedonia 40.7 hours per week
  6. 6 Poland 40.0 hours per week
  7. 7 Romania 40.0 hours per week
  8. 8 Bulgaria 39.9 hours per week
  9. 9 Cyprus 39.7 hours per week
  10. 10 Portugal 39.7 hours per week
  11. 11 Croatia 39.6 hours per week
  12. 12 Hungary 39.5 hours per week
  13. 13 Slovakia 39.5 hours per week
  14. 14 Malta 39.3 hours per week
  15. 15 Slovenia 39.3 hours per week
  16. 16 Czechia 39.2 hours per week
  17. 17 Lithuania 39.2 hours per week
  18. 18 Latvia 38.7 hours per week
  19. 19 Sweden 38.1 hours per week
  20. 20 Estonia 37.7 hours per week
  21. 21 Iceland 37.7 hours per week
  22. 22 Luxembourg 37.7 hours per week
  23. 23 Spain 37.5 hours per weekd (definition differs (see metadata))
  24. 24 Italy 37.2 hours per week
  25. 25 France 37.0 hours per weekd (definition differs (see metadata))
  26. 26 Belgium 36.1 hours per week
  27. 27 Switzerland 35.9 hours per week
  28. 28 Austria 35.8 hours per week
  29. 29 Finland 35.8 hours per week
  30. 30 Ireland 35.7 hours per week
  31. 31 Germany 34.8 hours per week
  32. 32 Norway 34.8 hours per week
  33. 33 Denmark 33.6 hours per week
  34. 34 Netherlands 31.5 hours per week
  35. European Union 37.0 hours per week
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Grey: no value for 2025. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.