14. Latvia
Average working hours annually: 1,910
Interesting fact about Latvia, next on our list of hardest working countries in the world ranked by average working hours, is that women work 4.5 hours more than women in the rest of EU, while men work more or less the same amount of time. Average working hours in Latvia are 8 hours a day, and employees usually work 5 days a week. That makes around 40 working hours per week which puts Latvia on the third place of hardest working countries in Europe by average working hours.