Brazil vs Taiwan: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Brazil

1,994 hours per worker

in 2023

Taiwan

2,032 hours per worker

in 2023

Brazil rank

61st

Taiwan rank

59th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Taiwan currently reports 2,032 hours per worker against 1,994 hours per worker in Brazil, a difference of 37.86 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 72 shared years of data; in 1951 it was Brazil ahead.

Globally, Brazil ranks 61st and Taiwan ranks 59th 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.