You are not talking about per person, you are talking about per worker. Total working hours per person has increased ~20% from 1950-2000 for ages 25-55.
Oh, I misunderstood. Yes, my stats are per worker. It’s interesting to see that per-person has increased a bit. Not sure what to make of that. The early-1900s stats didn’t count a lot of housework that was done mostly by housewives.
The per-person numbers are almost certainly due to women entering the workforce and thus getting counted in the numbers for the first time. Decline in fertility also has some effect (though probably smaller), as there are now fewer non-working children per adult.
To be clear, I’m talking about total working hours per person.
Most of the reduction happened before 1950, but as you can see from the Our World in Data chart, there was still some reduction after that.
You are not talking about per person, you are talking about per worker. Total working hours per person has increased ~20% from 1950-2000 for ages 25-55.
Oh, I misunderstood. Yes, my stats are per worker. It’s interesting to see that per-person has increased a bit. Not sure what to make of that. The early-1900s stats didn’t count a lot of housework that was done mostly by housewives.
The per-person numbers are almost certainly due to women entering the workforce and thus getting counted in the numbers for the first time. Decline in fertility also has some effect (though probably smaller), as there are now fewer non-working children per adult.