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Mean weekly hours actually worked per employed person: Vietnam, 1996–2024

Latest (2024)
41.9 hours per week
Source
International Labour Organization
Code
HOW_TEMP_NB
Frequency
Yearly
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What the series shows

The series runs from 1996 to 2024 (21 years of data). It moved from 51.8 to 41.9 hours per week, a change of -19.2%. The highest value was 51.8 in 1996 and the lowest 40.3 in 2019. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.

Using it in a thesis

Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.

Values by year

YearValue (hours per week)
202441.9
202341.8
202241.6
202141.4
202040.8
201940.3
201841.6
201740.3
201641.3
201540.9
201440.4
201340.9
201241.8
201142.7
201045.0
200942.6
200744.0
199946.2
199846.2
199745.3
199651.8

Comparison with other countries

CountryLatest yearValue
Vietnam202441.9
Thailand202542.4
Indonesia202338.4
Malaysia202244.7
Philippines202540.9
Singapore202042.6
Cambodia202539.5
Laos202241.5
Myanmar202044.7
China201646.1

How to cite (APA 7)

International Labour Organization. (2026). Mean weekly hours actually worked per employed person, Vietnam [Data set]. ILOSTAT. https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period with the variable name ilo_how_temp_nb, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.

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