Claim: It takes people in Germany four days to produce what people in the UK take five days to produce. This means they need to work fewer hours.
Fact-check: Productivity: are we keeping up with Germany? - Full Fact
Verdict: correct. on average, german workers took around four hours to produce what uk workers did in five hours in 2016. workers in the uk work longer days on average than german workers, so overall uk workers were 8.5% less productive than german workers in 2016.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Amy Sippitt
Date published: 2017-11-24T00:00:00