An interactive analysis of how Americans spend their time, showing how nations balance work and life.
Do you know who is winning the work-life balance game?
This OECD-backed analysis looks at daily time use across countries, categorising activities into work and life to compare how different nations balance the two. A few findings stand out. Some countries leave very little room for leisure in the average day, with Mexico sitting at the bottom of the ranking. Others, like France and Italy, log far less time on work than the average. The gap between the most and least work-heavy countries is larger than most people would expect.
Vizzu shows the country-by-country differences as a continuous visual flow, so you see how each country stacks up against the others in one movement. You can step through each activity category or pause to examine a specific country. A straightforward dataset becomes a clear picture of how work and life compete for your time depending on where you are born.
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