Italy vs Portugal: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Italy

1,701 hours per worker

in 2023

Portugal

1,735 hours per worker

in 2023

Italy rank

92nd

Portugal rank

89th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Portugal currently reports 1,735 hours per worker against 1,701 hours per worker in Italy, a difference of 33.52 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 74 shared years of data; in 1950 it was Italy ahead.

Globally, Italy ranks 92nd and Portugal ranks 89th 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.