Personally i'm glad that we europeans seem to be such a bunch of lazy bums 5 days vacation in a year?
I'd be interested to see how much vacation each country has in total when you include the free paid days because of (mostly religious) holidays. Germany has 11-14 of them, depending where you live, in a year.
<table width="450" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bordercolor="#CCCCCC"><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td height="31" colspan="3"><div align="center"><font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Living to Work: How the U.S. Stacks Up</strong></font></div></td></tr><tr> <td width="118" height="24"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">COUNTRY</font></div></td> <td width="82"><div aign="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">DAYS BY LAW</font></div></td><td width="66"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">AVERAGE</font></div></td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sweden</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25-35</font></div></td></tr <tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Austria</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr> <td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Denmark</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Germany</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">24</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Italy</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Norway</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">21</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Spain</font></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">30</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">France</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25-30</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Switzerland</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25-30</font></div></td></tr> <tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ireland</font></td> <td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 28**</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Australia</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Finland</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">24</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Netherlands</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Portugal</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">22</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 25**</font></div></td> </tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">United Kingdom </font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">25</font></div></td></tr><tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Belgium</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 24**</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greece</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">20</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">23</font></div></td></tr><tr> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Japan</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">10</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 17.5</font></div></td></tr><tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">China</font></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">15</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">15</font></div></td></tr><tr><td><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">U.S.</font></td> <td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">0</font></div></td><td><div align="center"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 10.2*</font></div></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#FAFFD6"><td height="87" colspan="3"> <p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Sources:</strong>
European Industrial Relations Observatory, World Tourism Organization; Los Angeles Times<br><strong>* </strong>Bureau of Labor Statistics, paid-leave after three years;<br><strong>** </strong>Economic Policy Institute </font></p></td></tr></table>
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