Bangladesh vs India: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Bangladesh

2,383 hours per worker

in 2023

India

2,383 hours per worker

in 2023

Bangladesh rank

10th

India rank

11th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Bangladesh currently reports 2,383 hours per worker against 2,383 hours per worker in India, a difference of 0.6 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 54 shared years of data; in 1970 it was India ahead.

Globally, Bangladesh ranks 10th and India ranks 11th 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.