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By june on Apr 07, 2007
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Sources: wikipedia : annual work hour(http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...) and GDP(http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...)

Annual work hour by GDP(PPP) per capita The two farthest outliers in the graph are Korea and the USA. —june

Comments (10)

Healthnut

Healthnut says

June,

Cool idea for a data set and graph! I like that it looks like a trend is heading down and to the right (i.e. higher GDP=lower work hours per year). Definitely something to think about.

posted over 2 years ago

cool says

2400 hour is Korea!!!

posted over 2 years ago

cool says

Real work hour of Korea is over 3600!!!
Believe it.

posted over 2 years ago

MikeC

MikeC says

LoL, does that mean Koreans are the most overworked country?

posted over 2 years ago

june

june says

[Healthnut] Thanks. I wanted to red-circle on a few outlier countries(mostly overworking compared to their GDP level) but I didn't know how.

[MikeC] Yes, among the OECD countries.

posted over 2 years ago

George Paci says

June said in the XP list that the data was from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

and:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...:Yearly_working_time.jpg

That should help identify the countries....

posted over 2 years ago

George Paci says

Let me try that second link again....

Yearly_working_time.jpg

posted over 2 years ago

George Paci says

June,

I'm not sure why you say the US is an outlier: it's part of the Norway-US-Ireland arc (from right to left). If anything, Norway is a more interesting data point, since it has the highest PPP-GDP-per-capita, yet one of the lowest hours-worked-per-worker. (The explanation is probably just that Norway has a lot of oil per-capita.)

A chart showing per-capita hours worked vs. PPP-GDP-per-capita might give slightly better insight.

posted over 2 years ago

june

june says

The graph is wrong. The data table has somehow corrupted. Poland's annual work hour is corrupted to be over 3500. It should be 1984 hours instead.

posted over 2 years ago

june

june says

Now I've corrected it.

posted over 2 years ago