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Labour Productivity per Hour Worked

21 years, 2005–2025 · 182 countries

Labour productivity per hour worked is how much economic output a country produces for each hour its people actually work, converted at purchasing power parities. It is the cleanest available measure of how productive an economy is, because it does not reward simply working longer.

This site holds every year from 2005 to 2025, read from ILO’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Labour Productivity per Hour Worked · the file

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Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2025
Held
21 years · 3,913 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0121 years

Every year

Every year comes from ILO’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2005bar height: countries covered, up to 1872025
Every year of Labour Productivity per Hour Worked held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2025Newest182±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2024182−2September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2023184−2September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2022186−1September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2021187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2020187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2019187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2018187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2017187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2016187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2015187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2014187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Show all 21 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2013187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2012187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2011187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2010187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2009187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2008187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2007187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2006187±0September 29, 2026CSV
Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2005187—September 29, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: productivity-per-hour-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Labour Productivity per Hour Worked: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1820
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1820
Output per hour worked (constant 2021 international $ at PPP)productivity_per_hourHeadlineThe headline figure: Output per hour worked (constant 2021 international $ at PPP).Number · up to 2 decimals0.92Burundi164.65Irelandmiddle 22.161780

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03187 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa535353535353535353525151
Americas333333333333333333333333
Asia515151515151515151504949
Europe393939393939393938383838
Oceania111111111111111111111111
All187187187187187187187187186184182182

The newest 12 of 21 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    − Lebanon− South Sudan
  • 2023
    − Palestine− Sudan
  • 2022
    − Ukraine

Not in this dataset · 38 places this site covers

ILO gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAndorraAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint Kitts and NevisSaint MartinSan MarinoSeychellesSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    International Labour Organization (ILO)

    ilostat.ilo.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Labour Productivity per Hour Worked 2025

    Read from the publisher’s own service.

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    21 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as productivity-per-hour-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/productivity-per-hour

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

An ILO modelled estimate read from ILOSTAT directly (GDP_2HRW_NOC_NB). Years beyond the current one are not imported.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 10, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: International Labour Organization (ILO), Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

International Labour Organization (ILO). Labour Productivity per Hour Worked, 2005–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/productivity-per-hour

The publisher’s own citation: International Labour Organization. ILO modelled estimates. Geneva: ILOSTAT.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Labour Productivity per Hour Worked: questions and answers

What is the Labour Productivity per Hour Worked?

Labour productivity per hour worked is how much economic output a country produces for each hour its people actually work, converted at purchasing power parities. It is the cleanest available measure of how productive an economy is, because it does not reward simply working longer.

Which years of the Labour Productivity per Hour Worked can I download?

All 21, from 2005 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does ILO rank countries on it?

No. ILO publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to ILO. The licence text is linked on this page.

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