Cameroon vs Costa Rica: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Cameroon

2,181 hours per worker

in 2023

Costa Rica

2,177 hours per worker

in 2023

Cameroon rank

31st

Costa Rica rank

34th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Cameroon currently reports 2,181 hours per worker against 2,177 hours per worker in Costa Rica, a difference of 3.7 hours per worker.

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

Globally, Cameroon ranks 31st and Costa Rica ranks 34th 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.