Pakistan vs Qatar: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Pakistan

2,471 hours per worker

in 2023

Qatar

2,435 hours per worker

in 2023

Pakistan rank

5th

Qatar rank

7th

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Pakistan currently reports 2,471 hours per worker against 2,435 hours per worker in Qatar, a difference of 36.07 hours per worker.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 19 shared years of data; in 2005 it was Pakistan ahead.

Globally, Pakistan ranks 5th and Qatar ranks 7th 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.