Algeria vs Namibia: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Algeria

2,232 hours per worker

in 2023

Namibia

2,184 hours per worker

in 2023

Algeria rank

26th

Namibia rank

29th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Algeria currently reports 2,232 hours per worker against 2,184 hours per worker in Namibia, a difference of 48.4 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Algeria ahead.

Globally, Algeria ranks 26th and Namibia ranks 29th of 129 countries.

Indicator: Annual working hours vs. productivity
Unit: hours per worker
Source: Feenstra et al. - Penn World Table (2025) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 129 places, 4,891 data points, 1950–2023
Last refreshed: 06 August 2026

This is the average sum of hours worked by employees and self-employed people during each year in a country.