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Who’s Working the Most?
SOURCE: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | CREDITS: Uglegorets/Shutterstock.com (flags); Q-stock/Shutterstock.com (working)
This graph shows the average annual hours worked per person in selected countries in 2017. (The average among the 38 countries surveyed was 1,746 hours per person per year.) Why do you think the numbers differ so widely between these countries?