Sudan vs United Arab Emirates: Annual working hours vs. productivity

Sudan

2,658 hours per worker

in 2023

United Arab Emirates

2,514 hours per worker

in 2023

Sudan rank

1st

United Arab Emirates rank

3rd

Annual working hours vs. productivity over time

Sudan currently reports 2,658 hours per worker against 2,514 hours per worker in United Arab Emirates, a difference of 143.59 hours per worker.

That makes Sudan's figure about 1.1 times United Arab Emirates's.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 18 shared years of data; in 2005 it was United Arab Emirates ahead.

Globally, Sudan ranks 1st and United Arab Emirates ranks 3rd 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.