Chile vs Jamaica: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Chile

1,950 hours per worker

in 2023

Jamaica

1,963 hours per worker

in 2023

Chile rank

70th

Jamaica rank

68th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Jamaica currently reports 1,963 hours per worker against 1,950 hours per worker in Chile, a difference of 13.01 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 38 shared years of data; in 1986 it was Chile ahead.

Globally, Chile ranks 70th and Jamaica ranks 68th 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.