Grindset Nations
Last updated: 10 November 2026
Hours Worked per Year 🇩🇪🇮🇩
This ranki.gg Rank it uses one measure: Average annual hours worked per worker, in hours/yr per worker. The countries on the card are Indonesia, South Korea, Greece, United States, Japan, Germany. You do not have to recall the numbers from memory. They sit in a column. The job is to match each country to the value that belongs to it, then lock the order in. Five tries. A card in the right spot locks. A card in the wrong spot turns red so you can move it.
Indonesia leads on long informal and farm hours. Greece still beats Germany because part-time work is rare there and common in Germany.
The countries on the card
| # | Country | hours/yr per worker |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indonesia | 1,958 |
| 2 | South Korea | 1,910 |
| 3 | Greece | 1,893 |
| 4 | United States | 1,789 |
| 5 | Japan | 1,654 |
| 6 | Germany | 1,335 |
Indonesia leads this table at 1,958 hours/yr per worker. After that: South Korea at 1,910 (48 hours/yr per worker under Indonesia); Greece at 1,893 (17 hours/yr per worker under South Korea); United States at 1,789 (104 hours/yr per worker under Greece); Japan at 1,654 (135 hours/yr per worker under United States); Germany at 1,335 (319 hours/yr per worker under Japan). Indonesia is 1.467 times Germany. That multiple is the top row divided by the bottom row of this same table. In the wider list of 129 stored on the puzzle, Indonesia is number 69, South Korea is number 73, Greece is number 74, United States is number 85, Japan is number 96, Germany is number 129.
The fact gives the reason the order is not 'rich countries work less, full stop.' Indonesia leads on long informal and farm hours. Greece still beats Germany because part-time work is rare in Greece and common in Germany. The hours are average annual hours worked per worker from the Penn World Table via Our World in Data, not a legal work week.
The source line on the puzzle is: Penn World Table 11 via Our World in Data. The puzzle does not add a separate caveat beyond that source line and the fact above. ranki.gg does not invent a value that is missing from that source. If two countries were so close that the order would depend on rounding, they would not be the pair the card asks you to separate.
When you finish the puzzle, the answer screen repeats the order, the fact, and a link to the source. That link is the same URL cited here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-worker.