Austria vs Iceland: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Austria

1,438 hours per worker

in 2023

Iceland

1,452 hours per worker

in 2023

Austria rank

124th

Iceland rank

122nd

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Iceland currently reports 1,452 hours per worker against 1,438 hours per worker in Austria, a difference of 13.54 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 18 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1964 it was Iceland ahead.

Globally, Austria ranks 124th and Iceland ranks 122nd 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.