Burkina Faso vs Kuwait: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Burkina Faso

2,356 hours per worker

in 2023

Kuwait

2,318 hours per worker

in 2023

Burkina Faso rank

13th

Kuwait rank

16th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Burkina Faso currently reports 2,356 hours per worker against 2,318 hours per worker in Kuwait, a difference of 38.25 hours per worker.

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

Globally, Burkina Faso ranks 13th and Kuwait ranks 16th 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.