Americans don't take much vacation time

Recently I read an article in April's Marie Claire where they compared employee's vacation time with that of other nations. I decided to research it online, and this is what I found:

Argentina: 14 Days
Australia: about 4 weeks
Belgium: 20 days
Bulgaria: 20 business days
Canada: at least 2 weeks
Chile: 15 working days
China: 0
Czech Republic: 4 weeks
France: 5 weeks
Germany: 4 weeks
Hong Kong: 7 days
Hungary: 20 work days
Ireland: 4 weeks
Israel: 14 days
Japan: 10 days
Mexico: 6 days
Northern Mariana Islands: 0
Poland: 18 working days
Puerto Rico: 15 days
Saudi Arabia: 15 days
Singapore: 7 days
South Africa: 21 consecutive days
South Korea: 10 working days
Spain: 30 calender days
Sweden: 5 weeks
Taiwan: 7 days
Netherlands: 4 weeks
Turkey: 12 work days
UK: at least 4 weeks
Ukraine: 24 calender days
US: about 2 weeks
Venezuela: 15 days


this info comes from: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/research/QuestionOfTheMonth/archive/vacationtime.html