Nigerians on 2,124 hours yearly, are second most hardworking after Mexicans
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Nigerian are ranked the second most hardworking people in the world, putting in an average 2,124 hours per worker per year, according to a new report by World of Statistics.
Nigerians trail only Mexico in the global ranking but are top in Africa.
Mexican workers put in an average four hours more than Nigerians with 2,128 hours yearly.
Most public and private workers in Nigeria work eight hours per day, either 8am to 4pm or 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. Some private organisations also open on Saturdays.
Besides, media houses, hospitals, security agencies, and manufacturing industries require more days and hours of their workers, as Saturdays or Sundays could be a shift arrangement.
In the informal sector, market women and other traders work up to 10 hours per day.
The report is silent on the type of work undertaken, but the countries in the top five are not tech-oriented.
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Other rankings
Three countries from Central and South America trail Nigeria in the top five, with Costa Rica third (2,073 hours), Colombia fourth (1,964 hours), and Chile fifth (1,916 hours), per Vanguard reporting.
High-tech South Korea is a surprise entry at number six with their workers putting in an average 1,910 hours yearly, followed by Malta (1,882); Russia (1,874), Greece (1,872), and Romania (1,838).
Workers in the world’s largest economy, the United States, put in an average 1,791 hours yearly to place them in the 13th spot while the world’s third-largest economy, Japan, is a distant 30th with 1,607 hours.
Germany, Europe’s dominant economy, is in the 50th place with its employees working an average 1,349 hours yearly.
South African workers are second on the African continent with 1,513 hours, placing them 36th worldwide.
Nigerians working 2,124 hours yearly means an average worker spends at least five hours on productive activities, compared to four hours among South Africans.
World of Statistics
The World of Statistics – successor to the highly successful International Year of Statistics (Statistics 2013) campaign celebrated in 2013 – is a network of nearly 2,360 organisations worldwide.
It is committed to increasing public awareness of the power and impact of statistics on all aspects of society, nurturing statistics as a profession, especially among young people as well as promoting creativity and development in the sciences of probability and statistics.
