Grindset Nations
Hours Worked per Year 🇩🇪🇮🇩
Hours Worked per Year 🇩🇪🇮🇩
| # | Country | Average annual hours worked per worker (hours/yr per worker) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | 1,958 | 2023 |
| 2 | 🇰🇷 South Korea | 1,910 | 2023 |
| 3 | 🇬🇷 Greece | 1,893 | 2023 |
| 4 | 🇺🇸 United States | 1,789 | 2023 |
| 5 | 🇯🇵 Japan | 1,654 | 2023 |
| 6 | 🇩🇪 Germany | 1,335 | 2023 |
Indonesia leads this card at 1,958, with Germany at 1,335. The gap is 623. Indonesia is 1.47 times Germany.
Indonesia leads on long informal and farm hours. Greece still beats Germany because part-time work is rare there and common in Germany.
Source: Penn World Table 11 via Our World in Data See the source.
Language Families
Which family is their main language in?
| Tier | Countries |
|---|---|
| Indo-European | 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇷 Iran |
| Uralic | 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇫🇮 Finland, 🇪🇪 Estonia |
| Turkic | 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan |
| Mongolic | 🇲🇳 Mongolia |
Iran sorts with Germany because Persian is Indo-European, written in the Arabic script, while Arabic is Semitic. Hungary, Finland and Estonia are Uralic, beside Indo-European neighbors. Turkish and Kazakh are both Turkic, and Kazakh is still mainly written in Cyrillic, so it looks Slavic. Mongolia writes Mongolian in Cyrillic too, and Mongolian is Mongolic, so the script is the trap: it is not Slavic, and it is not Turkic like Kazakh. Vietnam's Latin letters are Austroasiatic, and Malta's are Afroasiatic, the same alphabet trap, and neither is on this board.
Source: Glottolog: German and Persian are Indo-European, Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian are Uralic, Turkish and Kazakh are Turkic, and Khalkha Mongolian is Mongolic. Mongolic is its own family, not a branch of Turkic. Wikipedia, Kazakh alphabets: Cyrillic is the script used in Kazakhstan; a 2017 decree ordered a Latin alphabet and in 2021 the deadline moved to 2031. Wikipedia, Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet: the script used for Mongolian in Mongolia. Persian is written in a Perso-Arabic alphabet. Vietnamese is Austroasiatic and Maltese is Semitic, inside Afroasiatic; both use the Latin alphabet and are named only in the fact. See the source.
The Road Toll
Estimated road traffic deaths
| # | Country | Estimated road traffic death rate (road deaths per 100k people) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇹🇭 Thailand | 25.4 | 2021 |
| 2 | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | 18.5 | 2021 |
| 3 | 🇺🇸 United States | 14.2 | 2021 |
| 4 | 🇲🇽 Mexico | 12 | 2021 |
| 5 | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | 11.3 | 2021 |
| 6 | 🇯🇵 Japan | 2.7 | 2021 |
The United States (14.2 per 100,000) is above Indonesia (11.3) and Mexico (12.0). Saudi Arabia is 18.5 and Thailand is 25.4. These are WHO modelled estimates for 2021. The report calls failure to use seat-belts a major risk factor, and nearly half of drivers in a 48-country survey said they exceed the speed limit outside built-up areas.
Source: WHO Global status report on road safety 2023 (GHO RS_198, 2021 estimates) See the source.