Australia vs Slovakia: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Australia

1,611 hours per worker

in 2023

Slovakia

1,621 hours per worker

in 2023

Australia rank

104th

Slovakia rank

101st

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Slovakia currently reports 1,621 hours per worker against 1,611 hours per worker in Australia, a difference of 10.1 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Slovakia ahead.

Globally, Australia ranks 104th and Slovakia ranks 101st 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.