Jamaica vs Kazakhstan: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Jamaica

1,963 hours per worker

in 2023

Kazakhstan

1,975 hours per worker

in 2023

Jamaica rank

68th

Kazakhstan rank

65th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Kazakhstan currently reports 1,975 hours per worker against 1,963 hours per worker in Jamaica, a difference of 11.97 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Jamaica ahead.

Globally, Jamaica ranks 68th and Kazakhstan ranks 65th 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.