Brazil vs Kenya: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Brazil

1,994 hours per worker

in 2023

Kenya

2,035 hours per worker

in 2023

Brazil rank

61st

Kenya rank

58th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Kenya currently reports 2,035 hours per worker against 1,994 hours per worker in Brazil, a difference of 40.93 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Brazil ahead.

Globally, Brazil ranks 61st and Kenya ranks 58th 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.