Interesting Facts > Labor

• Guatamalan women work 11.5 hours a day, while South African men work only 4.5.
• Kenyan women work 35% longer than their menfolk.
• Ethiopians are by far the most agricultural people on earth (both men and women)
• Looking for Czech and Slovak men? Half are in factories.
• Women are flooding into the workforce in many Muslim countries.
• American women have the most powerful jobs.
• Southern European women hugely outnumber their menfolk amongst the unemployed.
• Danish workers strike 150 times more than their German neighbours.
• More than a third of the time, Icelanders don't show up for work. Perhaps that's why they're the world's happiest nation.
• In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef - one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator for it.
• If you are looking for work, just go to the Falkland Islands! They have full employment and a labor shortage.
• 61.5% of Swedes work more than 40 hours per week, but just across the border in Norway only 15.8% of people work this long.

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