Usual weekly working hours by country, 2025
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.
34 places ranked for 2025. Highest: Türkiye (44.0 hours per week). Lowest: Netherlands (31.5 hours per week). The median is 39.0 hours per week.
Highest 10
- 1. Türkiye 44.0 hours per week
- 2. Serbia 41.6 hours per week
- 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina 41.2 hours per week
- 4. Greece 41.0 hours per week
- 5. North Macedonia 40.7 hours per week
- 6. Poland 40.0 hours per week
- 7. Romania 40.0 hours per week
- 8. Bulgaria 39.9 hours per week
- 9. Cyprus 39.7 hours per week
- 10. Portugal 39.7 hours per week
Lowest 10
- 34. Netherlands 31.5 hours per week
- 33. Denmark 33.6 hours per week
- 32. Norway 34.8 hours per week
- 31. Germany 34.8 hours per week
- 30. Ireland 35.7 hours per week
- 29. Finland 35.8 hours per week
- 28. Austria 35.8 hours per week
- 27. Switzerland 35.9 hours per week
- 26. Belgium 36.1 hours per week
- 25. France 37.0 hours per weekd (definition differs (see metadata))
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Source: Eurostat.
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.
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Türkiye | 44.0 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 2 | Serbia | 41.6 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 3 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 41.2 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 4 | Greece | 41.0 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 5 | North Macedonia | 40.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 6 | Poland | 40.0 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 7 | Romania | 40.0 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 8 | Bulgaria | 39.9 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 9 | Cyprus | 39.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 10 | Portugal | 39.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 11 | Croatia | 39.6 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 12 | Hungary | 39.5 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 13 | Slovakia | 39.5 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 14 | Malta | 39.3 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 15 | Slovenia | 39.3 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 16 | Czechia | 39.2 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 17 | Lithuania | 39.2 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 18 | Latvia | 38.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 19 | Sweden | 38.1 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 20 | Estonia | 37.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 21 | Iceland | 37.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 22 | Luxembourg | 37.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 23 | Spain | 37.5 hours per weekd (definition differs (see metadata)) | 2025 | |
| 24 | Italy | 37.2 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 25 | France | 37.0 hours per weekd (definition differs (see metadata)) | 2025 | |
| 26 | Belgium | 36.1 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 27 | Switzerland | 35.9 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 28 | Austria | 35.8 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 29 | Finland | 35.8 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 30 | Ireland | 35.7 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 31 | Germany | 34.8 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 32 | Norway | 34.8 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 33 | Denmark | 33.6 hours per week | 2025 | |
| 34 | Netherlands | 31.5 hours per week | 2025 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2025, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2025 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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