Average weekly hours worked in the public sector
Compare average weekly hours worked in the public sector across 36 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 ILOSTAT reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •36 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Hours per week observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Pakistan has the highest published value (46.88 Hours per week).
- •Spain has the lowest published value (28.84 Hours per week).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 36.9Hours per week)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have implemented the 19th ICLS standards, for which data are also available in the Work Statistics -- 19th ICLS (WORK) database. Data on hours of work are presented, whenever possible, on the basis of the average number of hours of work per week, and with reference to hours worked in the main (paid) job regardless of working time arrangements (e.g. full-time and part-time). For more information, refer to the Worker and Sector Profiles (PROF) database description .
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 ILOSTAT slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.
Methodology
With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have implemented the 19th ICLS standards, for which data are also available in the Work Statistics -- 19th ICLS (WORK) database. Data on hours of work are presented, whenever possible, on the basis of the average number of hours of work per week, and with reference to hours worked in the main (paid) job regardless of working time arrangements (e.g. full-time and part-time). For more information, refer to the Worker and Sector Profiles (PROF) database description .
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pakistan | 46.9Hours per week |
| 2 | Burkina Faso | 44.0Hours per week |
| 3 | El Salvador | 43.1Hours per week |
| 4 | Djibouti | 42.5Hours per week |
| 5 | Angola | 41.8Hours per week |
| 6 | Costa Rica | 41.4Hours per week |
| 7 | Colombia | 41.2Hours per week |
| 8 | Panama | 40.8Hours per week |
| 9 | Mongolia | 39.8Hours per week |
| 10 | Honduras | 39.6Hours per week |
| 11 | Saint Lucia | 39.4Hours per week |
| 12 | Türkiye | 39.4Hours per week |
| 13 | Chile | 39.0Hours per week |
| 14 | Seychelles | 38.8Hours per week |
| 15 | Moldova, Republic of | 38.6Hours per week |
| 16 | Ecuador | 38.5Hours per week |
| 17 | State of Palestine | 38.0Hours per week |
| 18 | Peru | 37.6Hours per week |
| 19 | Mexico | 36.9Hours per week |
| 20 | Thailand | 36.7Hours per week |
| 21 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 36.2Hours per week |
| 22 | United States of America | 36.0Hours per week |
| 23 | Republic of The Gambia | 35.9Hours per week |
| 24 | Brazil | 35.1Hours per week |
| 25 | Rwanda | 35.1Hours per week |
| 26 | Bolivia | 34.5Hours per week |
| 27 | Switzerland | 33.6Hours per week |
| 28 | Dominican Republic | 33.0Hours per week |
| 29 | Paraguay | 32.9Hours per week |
| 30 | Argentina | 31.5Hours per week |
| 31 | Vanuatu | 31.0Hours per week |
| 32 | Uruguay | 30.5Hours per week |
| 33 | Canada | 29.8Hours per week |
| 34 | United Kingdom | 29.7Hours per week |
| 35 | Austria | 29.7Hours per week |
| 36 | Spain | 28.8Hours per week |
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Data Source
This data comes from International Labour Organization (ILO) (2025).
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