Ecuador vs Estonia: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Ecuador

1,594 hours per worker

in 2023

Estonia

1,606 hours per worker

in 2023

Ecuador rank

109th

Estonia rank

106th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Estonia currently reports 1,606 hours per worker against 1,594 hours per worker in Ecuador, a difference of 11.97 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1995 it was Ecuador ahead.

Globally, Ecuador ranks 109th and Estonia ranks 106th 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.