Costa Rica vs Thailand: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Costa Rica

2,177 hours per worker

in 2023

Thailand

2,177 hours per worker

in 2023

Costa Rica rank

34th

Thailand rank

33rd

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Thailand currently reports 2,177 hours per worker against 2,177 hours per worker in Costa Rica, a difference of 0.25 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 37 shared years of data; in 1987 it was Thailand ahead.

Globally, Costa Rica ranks 34th and Thailand ranks 33rd 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.