The given bar charts illustrate the weekly working hours of the manufacturing industry in 2002 in the four countries France, Denmark, Sweden, and The UK.
Overall, most staff spent 36-40 hours at work in three countries, except that it was 31-35 hours per week in France. Compared to this, the vast majority of remaining hours had a clearly lower figure.
Despite sharing the peak hours, the statistics was 70% of workers in Denmark while only 50% in The UK. From the UK’s chart, there is a slight decline in the proportion of labourer from 1-14 to 15-20 hours. Besides, if excluding the peak, a general rise from around 5% to 20%, can be seen as working time increased. In contrast, the figures in Denmark mostly remain stable at 10%. In addition to the peak, there is a notable exception of 23% employees at work in the range of 31-35 hours.
Taking a glimpse at France’s, the distribution of factory employees was taking the lead in 31-35 hours with 50%. This was 1.5 times higher than the number in time range 36-40, approximately 2.5 times greater than both 15-20 and 46-50 hours, and 5 times more than the four ranges 1-14, 21-30, 41-45, and 50+.
According to Sweden’s bar chart, there was a general increase from 1 hour of work per week to 40 hours, which hit its peak at 80% of staff, and then the statistics fell dramatically. There were also some groups with similar percentage values such as 15-20 and 21-30, 31-35 and 41-45, lastly 1-14, 45-50 and 50+ hours.