ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employee 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
56.75 No
United Arab Emirates
Lowest
21.3 No
Rwanda
Median
39.99 No
Years covered
50
1976–2025
Data points
1,913

What the numbers show

ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employee in agriculture — Value is currently reported for 91 countries. The highest value is 56.75 No in United Arab Emirates; the lowest is 21.3 No in Rwanda.

The median across all reporting countries is 39.99 No, and the mean is 40.61 No.

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

Over the past decade 24 countries rose and 64 fell. The largest increase was in Grenada (up 37.3%), and the largest decrease in Brunei Darussalam (down 41.7%).

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

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 United Arab Emirates 56.75 No 2024 up 1.2% flat
2 Bhutan 53.77 No 2022 rising
3 India 53.2 No 2024 down 4.8% falling
4 Senegal 52.22 No 2024 down 1.5% flat
4 Viet Nam 41.28 No 2024 down 4.0% falling
5 Mongolia 50.99 No 2024 down 0.2% rising
6 Zimbabwe 50.24 No 2024 up 9.8% flat
6 Türkiye 40.57 No 2024 down 14.2% falling
7 Angola 49.45 No 2024 up 16.2% rising
8 Iceland 47.95 No 2024 down 7.5% falling
9 Myanmar 47.88 No 2020 down 8.5% falling
10 Jordan 47.58 No 2023 down 7.6% falling
11 Mali 47.37 No 2023 up 2.4% rising
12 Bangladesh 47.16 No 2024 up 3.9% falling
13 Malaysia 47.1 No 2022 down 1.5% falling
14 Costa Rica 46.4 No 2025 up 2.4% flat
15 Namibia 46.39 No 2018 down 2.0% flat
16 Grenada 46.24 No 2023 up 37.3% rising
17 Cayman Islands 46 No 2015 flat
18 Colombia 45.76 No 2025 down 5.2% falling
19 Pakistan 45.45 No 2025 down 2.9% falling
20 Luxembourg 45.19 No 2024 up 4.5% falling
21 Qatar 45 No 2020 down 16.7% falling
22 Albania 44.82 No 2023 down 3.1% falling
23 South Africa 44.51 No 2024 down 3.4% falling
24 Dominican Republic 43.57 No 2024 down 5.5% falling
25 Armenia 43.52 No 2017 down 14.4% falling
26 Uruguay 43.48 No 2024 down 7.3% falling
27 Cyprus 43.15 No 2024 down 8.4% rising
28 Seychelles 42.66 No 2024 down 7.2% falling
29 Egypt 42.65 No 2024 down 2.7% falling
30 Brunei Darussalam 42.43 No 2024 down 41.7% falling
31 Jamaica 42.35 No 2023 up 5.8% flat
32 Guatemala 41.65 No 2024 down 0.5% falling
33 Israel 41.43 No 2024 up 2.5% flat
34 Montenegro 41.07 No 2024 up 2.5% flat
35 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 40.86 No 2024 down 2.1% flat
36 Chile 40.73 No 2025 down 4.5% falling
37 Mexico 40.69 No 2024 up 1.6% falling
38 Malta 40.54 No 2024 up 22.2% falling
39 Argentina 40.43 No 2024 down 12.9% flat
40 Bosnia and Herzegovina 40.29 No 2024 down 2.9% falling
41 Greece 40.19 No 2024 up 5.1% falling
42 Ukraine 40 No 2020 unchanged flat
42 Belize 40 No 2020 down 11.1% falling
44 North Macedonia 39.99 No 2024 down 7.8% falling
45 Belarus 39.95 No 2024 down 1.0% flat
46 Romania 39.85 No 2024 down 5.3% falling
47 Bulgaria 39.84 No 2024 down 2.5% falling
48 Serbia 39.8 No 2024 up 0.7% falling
49 Russian Federation 39.66 No 2024 down 1.1% flat
50 Latvia 39.35 No 2024 down 1.2% falling
51 Zambia 39.24 No 2024 down 4.3% falling
52 Slovakia 38.97 No 2024 down 4.1% falling
53 Palestine, State of 38.88 No 2025 up 9.2% falling
54 Lithuania 38.72 No 2024 up 3.4% flat
55 Czechia 38.64 No 2024 down 4.7% falling
56 Georgia 38.61 No 2024 down 16.0% falling
57 Thailand 38.48 No 2024 down 2.4% falling
58 Canada 38.37 No 2025 down 0.9% falling
59 Poland 38.18 No 2024 down 5.5% falling
60 New Zealand 38 No 2020 down 2.6% falling
61 Croatia 37.99 No 2024 down 3.1% falling
62 Portugal 37.72 No 2025 down 0.8% falling
63 Mauritius 37.62 No 2024 up 14.8% flat
64 Sri Lanka 37.6 No 2023 down 6.4% rising
65 Hungary 37.59 No 2024 down 1.4% falling
66 Finland 37.57 No 2024 up 11.9% falling
67 Spain 37.47 No 2025 down 1.1% falling
68 Estonia 37.38 No 2024 down 5.9% falling
69 Italy 37.2 No 2024 up 2.6% falling
70 Slovenia 36.96 No 2024 down 4.0% falling
71 Norway 36.94 No 2024 up 10.5% flat
72 Australia 36.85 No 2020 down 3.4% falling
73 Japan 36.6 No 2020 down 9.4% falling
74 Switzerland 36.17 No 2024 up 0.2% falling
75 Saint Lucia 35.91 No 2024 up 2.0% flat
76 Panama 35.66 No 2024 down 6.8% falling
77 Indonesia 35.6 No 2023 up 0.9% flat
78 Sweden 35.1 No 2024 down 3.6% flat
79 Ireland 34.74 No 2024 down 7.2% falling
80 Denmark 34.44 No 2024 down 9.1% falling
81 France 34.28 No 2024 down 0.2% falling
82 Philippines 33.63 No 2023 down 5.6% flat
83 Austria 33.47 No 2024 down 9.9% falling
84 Germany 33.13 No 2024 down 9.0% falling
85 Ecuador 32.82 No 2025 down 15.2% falling
86 Belgium 32.74 No 2024 down 11.0% flat
87 Netherlands (Kingdom of the) 30.35 No 2024 down 2.0% flat
88 Kyrgyzstan 24.85 No 2023 down 36.3% falling
89 Rwanda 21.3 No 2024 down 3.0% 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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ILOSTAT - Labour force survey — Mean weekly hours actually worked per employee in agriculture — Value
Unit
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Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
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Coverage
99 places, 1,913 data points, 1976–2025
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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.