Botswana vs Singapore: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Botswana
2,258 hours per worker
in 2023
Singapore
2,283 hours per worker
in 2023
Botswana rank
22nd
Singapore rank
20th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

  • Botswana
  • Singapore
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How they compare

Singapore currently reports 2,283 hours per worker against 2,258 hours per worker in Botswana, a difference of 25.12 hours per worker.

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

Globally, Botswana ranks 22nd and Singapore ranks 20th of 129 countries.

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About this data

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

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