Countries ranked by statutory paid annual leave
Malta ranks first in this current highest-to-lowest comparison at 28 days.
The minimum paid annual leave the law gives a full-time employee on a five-day week, in working days and without public holidays (Eurofound, 2022). Collective agreements and contracts often give more. Destinations outside the Eurofound comparison are absent rather than ranked at zero.
- Items compared
- 28
- Countries represented
- 28
- Last checked
- 2026-09-19
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| Original rank | Country | Source and scope | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malta | 28 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 2 | Luxembourg | 26 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 3 | Austria | 25 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 4 | Denmark | 25 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 5 | France | 25 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 6 | Sweden | 25 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 7 | Portugal | 22 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 8 | Spain | 22 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 9 | Norway | 21 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 10 | Belgium | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 12 | Croatia | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 13 | Cyprus | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 14 | Czechia | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 15 | Estonia | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 16 | Finland | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 17 | Germany | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 18 | Greece | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 19 | Hungary | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 20 | Ireland | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 21 | Italy | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 22 | Latvia | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 23 | Lithuania | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 24 | Netherlands | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 25 | Poland | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 26 | Romania | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 27 | Slovakia | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
| 28 | Slovenia | 20 daysdays/year | 2026-09-19 | Source Scope: country · Period: 2022-12-31 |
What the numbers say
- Malta leads at 28 days/year.
- Slovenia sits at the other end with 20 days/year.
- The middle of this ranking is 20 days/year, across 28 places that publish the metric.
- The spread between first and last is 8 days/year.
Quick answer
What does Countries ranked by statutory paid annual leave show?
Malta ranks first in this current highest-to-lowest comparison at 28 days.
How this list is built
Require all component metrics for the same country, keep their source records, calculate statutory minimum paid annual leave (working days), then sort descending.
- The report states exactly which components are included.
- Application and filing fees are excluded.
- Rows
- 28 countries
- Geographic grain
- country
- Observation period
- 2022-12-31
- Last checked
- 2026-09-19
- With an official source link
- 28 of 28
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Countries ranked by statutory paid annual leave [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 8184c76334ef985d18e1f52fb7ff9518]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/countries-ranked-by-paid-annual-leave/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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