ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employed person in agriculture — Male — Value by country

The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agrifood systems and rural areas. The update is performed yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour...

Countries reporting
90
Highest
56.77 No
United Arab Emirates
Lowest
22.46 No
Kyrgyzstan
Median
41.34 No
Years covered
57
1969–2025
Data points
1,981

What the numbers show

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employed person in agriculture — Male — Value is currently reported for 90 countries. The highest value is 56.77 No in United Arab Emirates; the lowest is 22.46 No in Kyrgyzstan.

The median across all reporting countries is 41.34 No, and the mean is 41.41 No.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 36 countries rose and 53 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 76.5%), and the largest decrease in Namibia (down 45.4%).

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 United Arab Emirates 56.77 No 2024 up 1.8% flat
2 Iceland 54.45 No 2024 up 2.4% flat
3 Bhutan 54.23 No 2022 flat
4 Mongolia 54.14 No 2024 up 0.3% rising
5 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 50.59 No 2024 down 2.0% flat
6 China, Hong Kong SAR 50.3 No 2008 down 5.6% falling
7 Belgium 49.98 No 2024 down 9.9% falling
8 France 48.08 No 2024 down 1.6% falling
9 Switzerland 47.61 No 2024 down 3.9% falling
10 Jordan 47.27 No 2023 down 6.9% falling
11 Senegal 47.02 No 2024 up 36.2% rising
12 Pakistan 46.53 No 2025 down 1.0% flat
13 Canada 46.27 No 2025 down 2.7% falling
14 Myanmar 46.2 No 2020 down 10.0% falling
15 Qatar 46 No 2020 down 17.9% falling
16 Zimbabwe 45.92 No 2024 up 76.5% flat
17 Montenegro 45.67 No 2024 up 26.5% rising
18 Serbia 45.65 No 2024 up 18.9% flat
19 Greece 45.51 No 2024 up 3.6% flat
20 Malta 45.45 No 2024 up 8.6% rising
21 Israel 45.35 No 2024 up 1.5% rising
22 Cyprus 45.19 No 2024 down 1.4% falling
23 South Africa 45.14 No 2024 down 4.7% falling
24 Ireland 45.01 No 2024 down 9.7% falling
25 Costa Rica 44.91 No 2025 up 4.5% flat
26 Luxembourg 44.74 No 2024 down 14.1% falling
27 Bangladesh 44.65 No 2024 up 4.0% falling
28 Mali 44.47 No 2023 down 3.3% falling
29 Argentina 44.18 No 2024 down 6.0% falling
30 Australia 44.17 No 2020 down 4.9% falling
31 Uruguay 43.62 No 2024 down 6.3% flat
32 Poland 43.58 No 2024 up 3.3% flat
33 Austria 43.38 No 2024 up 0.1% falling
34 Jamaica 43.19 No 2023 up 3.1% flat
35 New Zealand 43 No 2020 down 2.3% falling
36 Egypt 42.82 No 2024 down 6.8% falling
37 Malaysia 42.8 No 2022 up 6.7% flat
38 Bosnia and Herzegovina 42.77 No 2024 up 0.8% falling
39 India 42.72 No 2024 down 10.0% falling
40 Norway 42.41 No 2024 down 1.4% falling
41 Czechia 42.38 No 2024 down 3.2% falling
42 Colombia 41.99 No 2025 down 2.6% falling
43 Germany 41.98 No 2024 down 7.9% falling
44 Spain 41.88 No 2025 down 1.9% falling
45 Italy 41.57 No 2024 down 3.8% flat
46 Grenada 41.11 No 2023 up 8.6% rising
47 Cayman Islands 41 No 2015 down 1.4% flat
48 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 40.87 No 2024 down 10.6% falling
49 Slovakia 40.71 No 2024 down 3.1% falling
50 Lithuania 40.61 No 2024 up 6.8% flat
51 Portugal 40.51 No 2025 up 40.9% falling
52 Latvia 40.49 No 2024 up 0.2% falling
53 Bulgaria 40.23 No 2024 down 5.6% falling
53 Palestine, State of 40.23 No 2025 up 14.1% rising
55 Seychelles 40.05 No 2024 down 15.3% falling
56 Belize 40 No 2020 down 14.9% falling
57 Slovenia 39.95 No 2024 up 1.8% falling
58 Croatia 39.93 No 2024 up 7.1% rising
59 Belarus 39.9 No 2024 down 0.9% flat
60 Saint Lucia 39.8 No 2024 up 8.4% rising
61 North Macedonia 39.57 No 2024 down 10.5% flat
62 Chile 39.5 No 2025 down 5.1% falling
63 Namibia 39.34 No 2018 down 45.4% falling
64 Mexico 39.25 No 2024 down 0.8% falling
65 Hungary 38.95 No 2024 down 2.8% falling
66 Albania 38.93 No 2023 up 0.9% falling
67 Dominican Republic 38.69 No 2024 down 3.8% flat
68 Finland 38.31 No 2024 down 5.7% falling
69 Denmark 38.23 No 2024 down 13.2% falling
70 Angola 38.11 No 2024 up 4.8% flat
71 Romania 38.01 No 2024 up 4.5% falling
72 Japan 37.6 No 2020 down 6.5% falling
73 Russian Federation 37.58 No 2024 up 4.2% rising
74 Sweden 37.22 No 2024 down 8.0% falling
75 Estonia 37.04 No 2024 down 9.1% falling
76 Ukraine 37 No 2020 up 12.1% rising
77 Brunei Darussalam 36.86 No 2024 down 1.7% rising
78 Sri Lanka 36.62 No 2023 down 5.7% flat
79 Thailand 36.26 No 2024 down 6.5% falling
80 Azerbaijan 36.12 No 2022 up 15.1% rising
81 Zambia 35.06 No 2024 up 12.8% rising
82 Mauritius 34.87 No 2024 up 10.1% flat
83 Indonesia 32.21 No 2023 up 0.5% falling
84 Ecuador 31.8 No 2025 down 15.1% falling
85 Philippines 31.69 No 2023 down 5.4% falling
86 Georgia 30.32 No 2024 up 10.3% rising
87 Armenia 30.05 No 2017 up 10.1% falling
88 Panama 28.32 No 2024 down 11.6% falling
89 Rwanda 24.27 No 2024 down 3.2% falling
90 Kyrgyzstan 22.46 No 2023 down 10.5% flat

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employed person in agriculture — Male — Value
Unit
No
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
99 places, 1,981 data points, 1969–2025
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The FAOSTAT Employment indicators domain focuses on indicators related to employment in agrifood systems and rural areas. The update is performed yearly, using data from the International Labour Organization (ILO) database that contains a rich set of indicators from a wide range of topics related to labour statistics. The indicators published in FAOSTAT are derived from the labour force statistics (LFS) and rural and urban labour markets (RURURB) databases of the ILOSTAT database. In addition, the ILO modelled estimates and projections (ILOEST) are used to provide information on employment in agriculture. FAOSTAT also publishes indicators on employment in agrifood systems (AFS) from 2000 at the national, regional, and global levels, using a methodology developed by the FAO to estimate the number of people employed within these systems.