Self-Sufficiency Subcomponent: Work Ethic - Average Hours Worked

Hard work is a sign that someone is driven to be self-reliant, that he or she has grit. This determination is essential to having a society where self-sufficiency is promoted and rewarded. A simple way to see it is just by looking at how many hours those who have a job put in. This gives us a sense of how hard-working the employed members of a society are (and, more loosely, the society in aggregate). Below we zoom in on the simple measure: the average work week (we triangulate our picture with a broader set of measures next). On this measure we see emerging countries at the top of the list, including Thailand, India, and China. Overall, emerging Asia comes through as working the hardest, followed by Latin America. Among rich countries, Singapore and then Japan have the hardest workers. The US is fairly hard-working among developed countries, whereas workers in Europe appear to opt for leisure more than anyone else based on these measures.

艰苦的工作是一个迹象，表明有人被迫自力更生，他或她有磨砂。这个决心对于建立一个自给自足的社会来说是至关重要的。一个简单的方法来看待这些事情，只是看看有几个小时工作的人，这让我们了解一个社会就业人员如何努力工作（而且更宽松地说是整个社会） 。下面我们简单介绍一下：平均工作周（我们用更广泛的措施来对图像进行三角测量）。在这个措施上，我们看到新兴国家位列榜首，其中包括泰国，印度和中国。总体而言，新兴亚洲经历最艰苦的工作，其次是拉丁美洲。在富国之中，新加坡和日本的劳工人数最多。美国在发达国家中相当努力，而欧洲的工人比这些措施更愿意选择休闲。