ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employed person in agriculture — 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
91
Highest
56.74 No
United Arab Emirates
Lowest
20.27 No
Kyrgyzstan
Median
40.02 No
Years covered
57
1969–2025
Data points
2,038

What the numbers show

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employed person in agriculture — Value is currently reported for 91 countries. The highest value is 56.74 No in United Arab Emirates; the lowest is 20.27 No in Kyrgyzstan.

The median across all reporting countries is 40.02 No, and the mean is 39.39 No.

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

Over the past decade 34 countries rose and 56 fell. The largest increase was in Zimbabwe (up 78.8%), and the largest decrease in Namibia (down 51.4%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 United Arab Emirates 56.74 No 2024 up 1.9% flat
2 Bhutan 53.66 No 2022 flat
3 Mongolia 51.33 No 2024 up 4.8% rising
4 Iceland 50.19 No 2024 down 2.4% flat
5 China, Hong Kong SAR 48.8 No 2008 down 6.0% falling
6 Jordan 47.06 No 2023 down 6.8% falling
7 Belgium 46.97 No 2024 down 10.1% falling
8 Qatar 46 No 2020 down 17.9% falling
9 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 45.69 No 2024 down 2.5% flat
10 France 45.45 No 2024 down 1.5% flat
11 Myanmar 45.04 No 2020 down 10.6% falling
12 Costa Rica 44.63 No 2025 up 6.3% flat
13 Malta 44.45 No 2024 up 12.8% rising
14 South Africa 44.32 No 2024 down 3.8% falling
15 Montenegro 44.01 No 2024 up 28.7% rising
16 Serbia 43.68 No 2024 up 20.0% flat
17 Israel 43.5 No 2024 up 3.5% rising
18 Senegal 43.4 No 2024 up 36.6% rising
19 Cyprus 43.33 No 2024 down 1.0% flat
20 Ireland 43.31 No 2024 down 9.1% falling
21 Luxembourg 43.29 No 2024 down 12.4% falling
22 Canada 42.74 No 2025 down 2.8% falling
23 Malaysia 42.6 No 2022 up 10.6% flat
24 Uruguay 42.44 No 2024 down 5.2% flat
25 Switzerland 42.26 No 2024 down 2.2% falling
26 Greece 42.19 No 2024 up 2.7% flat
27 Cayman Islands 42 No 2015 up 1.0% falling
28 Zimbabwe 41.42 No 2024 up 78.8% flat
29 Pakistan 41.24 No 2025 down 0.7% flat
30 Poland 41.16 No 2024 up 4.5% flat
31 Bosnia and Herzegovina 41.15 No 2024 up 0.8% falling
32 Czechia 41.13 No 2024 down 3.7% falling
33 Argentina 41.12 No 2024 down 11.7% falling
34 Jamaica 41.1 No 2023 up 1.9% flat
35 Spain 41.02 No 2025 down 1.3% falling
36 Mali 40.93 No 2023 down 2.2% falling
37 Grenada 40.84 No 2023 up 9.9% rising
38 Egypt 40.67 No 2024 down 1.3% flat
39 Seychelles 40.47 No 2024 down 12.4% falling
40 Colombia 40.25 No 2025 down 0.9% falling
41 Latvia 40.19 No 2024 up 1.1% falling
42 Bulgaria 40.18 No 2024 down 5.2% flat
43 Austria 40.17 No 2024 up 0.6% falling
44 Australia 40.06 No 2020 down 1.6% flat
45 Italy 40.05 No 2024 down 2.5% flat
46 Norway 40.02 No 2024 down 0.3% falling
47 Slovakia 40 No 2024 down 3.5% falling
47 Belize 40 No 2020 down 13.0% falling
49 Belarus 39.62 No 2024 down 1.1% flat
50 Portugal 39.51 No 2025 up 41.0% falling
51 Chile 39.14 No 2025 down 3.2% falling
52 Lithuania 39.13 No 2024 up 6.8% flat
53 Saint Lucia 38.84 No 2024 up 8.1% rising
54 Slovenia 38.77 No 2024 up 2.5% falling
55 North Macedonia 38.51 No 2024 down 10.9% flat
56 Palestine, State of 38.47 No 2025 up 21.7% rising
57 Croatia 38.42 No 2024 up 13.4% rising
58 Hungary 38.31 No 2024 down 2.8% falling
59 Germany 38.23 No 2024 down 7.7% falling
60 Mexico 38.2 No 2024 down 1.1% flat
61 New Zealand 38 No 2020 down 2.6% falling
62 Dominican Republic 37.96 No 2024 down 4.6% rising
63 India 37.81 No 2024 down 16.1% falling
64 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 37.77 No 2024 down 5.4% falling
65 Finland 37.59 No 2024 down 3.7% falling
66 Angola 37.54 No 2024 up 5.2% flat
67 Bangladesh 37.5 No 2024 down 10.5% falling
68 Romania 37.09 No 2024 up 7.6% flat
69 Albania 36.48 No 2023 up 1.0% falling
70 Estonia 36.46 No 2024 down 7.6% falling
71 Ukraine 36 No 2020 up 16.1% rising
72 Namibia 35.96 No 2018 down 51.4% falling
73 Denmark 35.83 No 2024 down 16.0% falling
74 Russian Federation 35.77 No 2024 up 6.9% rising
75 Sweden 35.72 No 2024 down 9.5% falling
76 Brunei Darussalam 35.55 No 2024 down 37.9% falling
77 Thailand 35.53 No 2024 down 6.1% falling
78 Azerbaijan 35.15 No 2022 up 16.1% rising
79 Japan 34.5 No 2020 down 8.0% falling
80 Sri Lanka 34.28 No 2023 down 6.2% flat
81 Zambia 33.25 No 2024 up 17.9% rising
82 Mauritius 32.31 No 2024 up 12.4% flat
83 Kazakhstan 31 No 2022 down 3.1% flat
84 Philippines 29.75 No 2023 down 5.7% falling
85 Ecuador 29.56 No 2025 down 14.5% falling
86 Indonesia 29.43 No 2023 down 0.4% falling
87 Georgia 28.51 No 2024 up 14.0% rising
88 Armenia 26.6 No 2017 up 8.6% falling
89 Panama 25.9 No 2024 down 12.1% falling
90 Rwanda 21.97 No 2024 down 3.3% flat
91 Kyrgyzstan 20.27 No 2023 down 13.8% 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 — Value
Unit
No
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
100 places, 2,038 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.