Iceland vs Uruguay: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Iceland

1,452 hours per worker

in 2023

Uruguay

1,481 hours per worker

in 2023

Iceland rank

122nd

Uruguay rank

120th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Uruguay currently reports 1,481 hours per worker against 1,452 hours per worker in Iceland, a difference of 29.14 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 34 shared years of data; in 1990 it was Uruguay ahead.

Globally, Iceland ranks 122nd and Uruguay ranks 120th 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.