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Where in Europe do people work the longest hours?

Türkiye comes top at 44.1 hours and Netherlands bottom at 33.0 hours. The EU-27 figure is 37.3 hours.

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Mean usual weekly hours in the main job, full-time and part-time together (EU Labour Force Survey).

These are survey estimates, so each comes with sampling error. Countries close together in the table may not really differ; treat near neighbours as roughly equal rather than as a strict ranking.

Countrysurvey meanYear
Türkiye44.1 hours2025
Serbia41.7 hours2025
Bosnia and Herzegovina41.2 hours2025
Greece41.0 hours2025
North Macedonia40.7 hours2025
Poland40.1 hours2025
Romania40.0 hours2025
Bulgaria39.9 hours2025
Cyprus39.8 hours2025
Portugal39.8 hours2025
Croatia39.6 hours2025
Hungary39.5 hours2025
Malta39.5 hours2025
Slovenia39.5 hours2025
Slovakia39.5 hours2025
Czechia39.3 hours2025
Lithuania39.2 hours2025
Latvia38.8 hours2025
Iceland38.7 hours2025
Sweden38.7 hours2025
Luxembourg38.0 hours2025
Estonia37.9 hours2025
Spain37.6 hours2025
Italy37.3 hours2025
France37.2 hours2025
Belgium36.5 hours2025
Finland36.4 hours2025
Ireland36.3 hours2025
Austria35.9 hours2025
Switzerland35.8 hours2025
Norway35.8 hours2025
Germany35.0 hours2025
Denmark34.6 hours2025
Netherlands33.0 hours2025
How do we know?

Source: Eurostat (European Commission), Eurostat lfsa_ewhuis: Average usual weekly hours worked in the main job by professional status, full-time/part-time employment and occupation. Source: Eurostat (lfsa_ewhuis), Average usual weekly hours worked in the main job by professional status, full-time/part-time employment and occupation. Reuse authorised with acknowledgement. Eurostat copyright and licence policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; CC BY 4.0 for Commission content).

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