Americans among world’s workaholics

Americans are officially among the hard laborers of the developed world, a new study shows, working an average of 8.5 hours a day. Mexicans, Japanese, Portuguese, Canadians, and Estonians put in the longest paid and unpaid hours of any nations. Lucky Belgians only work 7 hours a day on average, putting them at the bottom of the 29 countries measured by The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Americans also spend only 30 minutes cooking per day, far under the 52-minute average of OECD countries. We also manage to scarf down our meals in 90 minutes.

While the U.S. average income was the second-highest of any country, America was also listed as the fourth most unequal society in the group. More than 17 percent of Americans live in poverty, compared to the OECD country average of 11 percent.

(Graph of hours worked by country: OECD)