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Long hours in paid work — Work and job quality

Name: Long hours in paid work — Work and job quality
Creator: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Keywords: trend-research-500, oecd, health-systems-mental-health, long, hours, paid, work, work, and, job, quality

Compare long hours in paid work — work and job quality across 40 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 OECD reference slice.

Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)•40 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

5.9Percentage of employees

Median: 3.9Percentage of employees

Countries Covered

40

with available data

Highest

Mexico

24.7Percentage of employees

Lowest

Bulgaria

0.2Percentage of employees

Top 5 Countries

1Mexico24.7Percentage of employees

2Türkiye23.4Percentage of employees

3Colombia17.4Percentage of employees

4South Africa14.4Percentage of employees

5Costa Rica12.9Percentage of employees

By Region

Other18.2Percentage of employees(2 countries)

Africa14.4Percentage of employees(1 countries)

North America12.2Percentage of employees(3 countries)

South America11.0Percentage of employees(2 countries)

Asia10.4Percentage of employees(1 countries)

Key Findings

•40 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Percentage of employees observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
•Mexico has the highest published value (24.68 Percentage of employees).
•Bulgaria has the lowest published value (0.17 Percentage of employees).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.2Percentage of employees)High (24.7Percentage of employees)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 5.9Percentage of employees)

Other (2)

Africa (1)

North America (3)

South America (2)

Asia (1)

Oceania (2)

Europe (29)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Current well-being: Long hours in paid work — Work and job quality. Unit: Percentage of employees. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 OECD 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

Current well-being: Long hours in paid work — Work and job quality. Unit: Percentage of employees. Exact fixed dimensions are recorded in selectedDimensions.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Mexico	24.7Percentage of employees
2	Türkiye	23.4Percentage of employees
3	Colombia	17.4Percentage of employees
4	South Africa	14.4Percentage of employees
5	Costa Rica	12.9Percentage of employees
6	New Zealand	11.1Percentage of employees
7	Israel	10.4Percentage of employees
8	Australia	9.7Percentage of employees
9	Iceland	9.5Percentage of employees
10	United Kingdom	9.1Percentage of employees
11	United States of America	8.9Percentage of employees
12	Portugal	6.5Percentage of employees
13	France	5.9Percentage of employees
14	Luxembourg	5.1Percentage of employees
15	Switzerland	5.0Percentage of employees
16	Sweden	4.9Percentage of employees
17	Chile	4.7Percentage of employees
18	Norway	4.1Percentage of employees
19	Austria	4.0Percentage of employees
20	Ireland	3.9Percentage of employees
21	Belgium	3.8Percentage of employees
22	Canada	3.1Percentage of employees
23	Greece	3.1Percentage of employees
24	Czech Republic	2.9Percentage of employees
25	Poland	2.8Percentage of employees
26	Germany	2.8Percentage of employees
27	Italy	2.7Percentage of employees
28	Slovakia	2.7Percentage of employees
29	Finland	2.6Percentage of employees
30	Denmark	2.4Percentage of employees
31	Spain	2.2Percentage of employees
32	Slovenia	2.0Percentage of employees
33	Netherlands	1.8Percentage of employees
34	Estonia	1.6Percentage of employees
35	Hungary	1.5Percentage of employees
36	Croatia	1.5Percentage of employees
37	Lithuania	0.9Percentage of employees
38	Romania	0.7Percentage of employees
39	Latvia	0.7Percentage of employees
40	Bulgaria	0.2Percentage of employees

Showing 40 of 40 countries

Topics

#trend-research-500 #oecd #health-systems-mental-health #long #hours #paid #work #work #and #job #quality

Data Source

This data comes from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (2025).

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